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Why APAC Enterprises Need Real-Time Threat Intelligence as Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand Tighten Cyber Compliance in 2026

Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand all tightened cyber compliance in 2026, mandating continuous monitoring and rapid incident reporting for critical infrastructure.

Singapore's CSA issued the Cybersecurity Code of Practice 2026 for Critical Information Infrastructure on 29 July 2026, adding board cyber-resilience duties, annual training, and controls on Interconnected Systems, with most obligations effective by 29 July 2027. Malaysia's Cyber Security Act 2024 requires NACSA-licensed providers, audits, and fast incident notification, with fines up to RM500,000 and up to ten years' imprisonment. Thailand's NCSA cloud security standard has been enforced since 10 September 2026, with a Website Security Standard effective 16 September 2026. The vendor article argues detection speed has become a compliance metric driving demand for real-time threat intelligence.

Cyble · 4h agoPolicy & legal

Congress eyes new support for Cyber Command after recent suicide deathsnew

Congress is weighing new mental-health support and $11 million in training funding for U.S. Cyber Command after a cluster of personnel suicides.

Lawmakers view recent suicide deaths among U.S. Cyber Command personnel as an inflection point amid record operational tempo, including missions against Iran and Venezuela. Possible vehicles include the NDAA and the next funding bill; the House Appropriations Committee approved $11 million for the command's High Performance Team Training. A FY2024 NDAA-ordered study found resources for the Cyber Mission Force are inadequate and may jeopardize readiness, and Gen. Joshua Rudd has ordered weekly service-cyber check-ins on suicide-prevention efforts.

The Record · 1h agoPolicy & legal

U.S. Seizes NightmareStresser Domains Linked to Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks

The U.S. DoJ seized NightmareStresser DDoS-for-hire domains, disrupting a booter service linked to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a court-authorized seizure of nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org, conducted with the FBI Anchorage Field Office and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as part of Operation PowerOFF. Searchlight Cyber reported in 2023 that NightmareStresser had over 566,000 registered users and 52 servers, offering Layer 4 amplification and Layer 7 floods against education, government, and gaming victims. The seizure follows earlier actions, including 48 domains seized in December 2022 and 53 domains plus four arrests this April, bringing totals to twelve charged defendants and more than 100 seized domains.

The Hacker Newsupdated · 1h agofirst · 9h agoPolicy & legal 5 sources

CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore

CISA will discontinue its weekly vulnerability bulletin on September 28, pushing users toward KEV, alerts, and CVE data under risk-based prioritization.

CISA announced its weekly vulnerability bulletin will stop on Monday, September 28, as part of a shift from static CVSS severity scores to a modern, risk-based approach detailed in a June Binding Operational Directive. The directive prioritizes federal remediation based on exposure, exploitation evidence, control granted by exploitation, and whether exploitation can be automated. CISA directs bulletin subscribers to rely instead on its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, cybersecurity alerts and advisories, and the CVE catalog, requiring users to enable those subscriptions in GovDelivery or Granicus to avoid missing critical notices.

The Register · Security · 18h agoPolicy & legal

LinkedIn fights for the right to tell customers when the feds want their data

Microsoft's chief legal officer argues federal subpoenas for LinkedIn user data should carry narrower scope and that secrecy orders must become the exception.

Microsoft chief legal officer Jon Palmer said federal courts and Congress must curb overly broad US government subpoenas for LinkedIn user data that arrive with secrecy orders preventing customer notification. The company is asking courts to enforce meaningful limits on demand scope and secrecy, invoking Fourth and First Amendment arguments. Palmer cited House legislation passed August 31 to rein in secret surveillance, while LinkedIn simultaneously faces user privacy lawsuits, one dismissed with leave to amend by Judge Vince Chhabria.

CSO Online · 18h agoPolicy & legal

Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

A New Jersey court ordered people-search broker Radaris to transfer radaris.com and a dozen related domains to Atlas Data Privacy over Daniel's Law violations.

On August 26, a New Jersey judge found Radaris failed to defend claims that it violated Daniel's Law, which protects law enforcement officials' personal data and imposes $1,000 fines per ignored removal request. The court ordered radaris.com and more than a dozen related broker domains transferred to plaintiff Atlas Data Privacy Corp. Radaris had delayed litigation using offshore shell entities and previously used a fictitious CEO named 'Gary Norden' in investor-facing press releases.

Krebs on Security · 20h agoPolicy & legal