Yonhap News reports: Korea’s state-run Financial Security Institute (FSI) reported a data leak following a hacking attack targeting its security assessment system, officials said on Tuesday. The FSI, which oversees financial information provided by banks and insurers, detected the breach the previous day, according to financial authorities. The leaked information reportedly came from the FSI’s...

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has denied claims of a new security breach made by a threat actor using the ‘ShinyHunters’ handle on a newly emerged underground cybercrime forum. This follows the threat actor, believed to impersonate the ShinyHunters extortion gang, putting up for sale what they claimed were records of...

CoinTelegraph reports: South Korea’s crypto exchange Bithumb is investigating the extent of a data leak caused by a hack of its internal mobile system earlier this week, Yonhap News Agency reported Wednesday. Bithumb discovered the breach of its in-house mobile system — the platform used by employees to communicate internally — on Tuesday and notified...

Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi report that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s second-largest brokerage and investment banking firm, is responding to a breach at one of its vendors. Daiwa Securities Group said information on as many as 110,000 clients may have been stolen after the servers of an external vendor were hacked. Japan’s second-largest brokerage received a...

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Lee Hyo-jin reports: President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday ordered a thorough investigation into a string of recent data breaches at financial institutions, as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyberattacks increasingly target them. According to Cheong Wa Dae, Lee was briefed on recent data breaches at financial and public institutions and their responses to the incidents. “The...

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New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS): September 10, 2026 New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow today issued new cybersecurity guidance outlining the Department’s expectations for DFS-regulated entities’ on conducting risk assessments sufficient to inform their cybersecurity programs. The guidance outlines requirements regarding scope, frequency, and the role...

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