Fraud and Security
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Weaver Ant, a threat group with links to China, infiltrated telecom providers in Asia for several years without detection, according to new research by cybersecurity firm Sygnia. -
Colt Technology Services has successfully completed a trial of quantum-secured encryption across its fibre optical network.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink has reportedly been installed at the White House, raising questions about security and necessity.
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Nokia has continued its shift toward digital infrastructure by securing projects with European hosting provider Hetzner and cloud infrastructure provider Worldstream.
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Telefónica has appointed Piedad Álvarez de Arriba as the company’s new global security director.
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Quantum Industries, an Austrian firm developing quantum secure communications technologies, has secured $10 million in seed funding.
Forthcoming events
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Cisco and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison have penned a partnership aimed at bolstering cybersecurity services for Indonesian enterprises.
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Swedish authorities are investigating a suspected cable break off the coast of Gotland, the latest in a series of incidents affecting undersea infrastructure in the region.
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Microsoft’s $700 million cloud, AI, and cybersecurity investment in Poland threatens Europe’s digital sovereignty and national security, warns Kai Wawrzinek, co-founder of Impossible Cloud Network.
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Sinch has partnered with Aduna, the telecom industry's API venture, to expand access to secure mobile network capabilities.
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DeepSeek burst onto the scene last week and upended the long-dominant big boys of AI with its smaller, more efficient approach to language model design.
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The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has urged European leaders to enhance cooperation on subsea cable security following multiple incidents of cable damage.
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An investigation into the ship that supposedly severed a subsea cable connecting Latvia to the Swedish island of Gotland was cut accidentally, authorities confirmed.
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New research from Cisco found that DeepSeek’s flagship R1 AI model failed to block a single harmful prompt during a series of tests that uncovered critical safety flaws.
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DeepSeek took the world by storm this week. However, new research reveals the Chinese AI model has serious ethical and security flaws, including being 11 times more likely to generate harmful output than OpenAI’s o1.
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A startup called Lumetec is making a splash with a novel way of protecting subsea cables
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UK lawmakers have launched an inquiry into subsea cable vulnerabilities, examining the country’s resilience in the event of potential disruption to internet infrastructure.
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Singtel has partnered with Singaporean defence and security agencies to deploy network slicing technologies to bolster the country’s national security.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
