Asia In Brief Indian infosec firm CloudSEK last week claimed it found records describing 750 million Indian mobile network subscribers on the dark web, with two crime gangs offering the trove of data for just $3,000.
CloudSEK named CYBO CREW affiliates CyboDevil and UNIT8200 as the vendors of a 1.8TB trove, which contains mobile subscribers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and Aadhaar details.
CloudSEK said its initial analysis found that the leak affects all major telecom providers.
After making an alliance with Google the centerpiece of the launch for its Galaxy S24 smartphone range, Samsung has decided to use the ERNIE model from China's Baidu for versions of the devices sold in the Middle Kingdom.
Baidu told The Register that ERNIE will allow the S24 to perform real-time call translation, intelligent summarization of transcribed documents, and enable the circle to search feature - with results from the Chinese giant's search engine.
Circle to search was previously only offered on the S24 and Google's own Pixel 8 handsets.
Singapore-based crypto outfit Terraform Labs last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States.
A filing with the bankruptcy court in Delaware revealed the outfit has assets and liabilities in the range of $100 to $500 million.
Terraform Labs continues to operate despite its troubles, and ongoing attempts to extradite founder Do Kwon from Montenegro.
Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions 'Technical glitch' in payroll software sparks riots in Papua New Guinea India to launch with SpaceX's Falcon 9 for the first time Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago India's IT minister pushes for supercomputing hub.
Indian IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar reportedly revealed last week that his ministry would propose a $1.2 million supercomputing and quantum computing hub.
Telstra International and Trans Pacific Networks announced a partnership on the Echo undersea cable.
The cable is the first of its kind to connect the US directly to Singapore and will also connect to Indonesia and Guam.
The path between Guam and the US will launch this year, while the rest won't be live until 2025.
Telstra will become TPN's operating partner and will deliver cable landing station services.
The Australian telco cited predictions that bandwidth demand across the Pacific will increase by 39 percent year on year until 2029.
Our regional coverage from last week included Huawei's ambition to break from Android with its own Harmony OS, and the Chinese government's fresh attempts to define metaverse standards.
We also noted South Korea's restoration of smartphone subsidies and the unexpected profit posted by local memory-maker SK hynix.
The sad demise of Japan's SLIM Moon lander also caught our eye.
So did Taiwan's first homegrown quantum computer going online, and Australia sanctioning a Russian national suspected of a 2022 attack on health insurer Medibank Private.
This Cyber News was published on go.theregister.com. Publication date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:43:06 +0000