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General : Study Underway To Strengthen Cybercrime Victim Protection - Azalina

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July 7, 2026

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Narrative Analysis: Appeal to Fear

PUTRAJAYA, July 7 (Bernama) -- The government is conducting a special study to develop a more comprehensive protection mechanism for cybercrime victims, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

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Technique: Appeal to Fear
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Utusan Malaysia

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· Jul 7, 2026

Kaji hukuman sebat kepada scammer, pampasan mangsa jenayah siber

PUTRAJAYA: Kerajaan sedang mengkaji mekanisme perundangan bagi membolehkan mangsa jenayah siber, khususnya penipuan dalam talian, menerima pampasan atau mendapatkan semula wang yang hilang akibat diperdaya sindiket penipuan dalam talian atau ‘scammer’. Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Undang-Undang dan Reformasi Institusi), Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said berkata, kajian itu sedang dilaksanakan oleh Bahagian Hal Ehwal Undang-Undang ... Read more The post Kaji hukuman sebat kepada scammer, pampasan mangsa jenayah siber appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

Vision Times

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· Jul 7, 2026

Taiwan Investigates Suspected Smuggling of Nvidia AI Servers to China

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating a case involving the illegal smuggling of high-end AI servers equipped with Nvidia chips to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, the Taipei Times reported. As part of the investigation, a special task force searched the Taiwan Asia-Pacific headquarters of Supermicro, as well as Aaeon Technology and Chief Telecom, and questioned six []

The Hacker News

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· Jul 1, 2026

VEIL#DROP Malware Chain Uses Blogger Platform to Deliver PureLogs Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new multi-stage malware delivery attack chain that uses social engineering and Blogger pages to deliver an information stealer called PureLogs. The activity has been codenamed VEILDROP by Securonix. It's suspected that the initial payloads are distributed either via spear-phishing or a drive-by compromise, which occurs when an unsuspecting user lands on

The Register

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· Jul 2, 2026

Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack

Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up

BERNAMA

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· Jul 1, 2026

General : Dewan Rakyat Approves Cybercrimes Bill 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 (Bernama) -- The Dewan Rakyat today passed the Cybercrimes Bill 2026, which, among other things, provides for offences and penalties related to deepfakes and the dissemination of digitally manipulated intimate images created using sophisticated computer systems.

The Next Web

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· Jul 1, 2026

A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without triggering security tools. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May and published its analysis this week. The attack starts with a phishing [] This story continues at The Next Web

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