On Sunday, March 24, a hacktivist known as "ph1ns" breached the websites of three companies owned by RYM Business Management Corporation, a business holding firm owned by the family of House speaker Martin Romualdez, who is the first cousin of Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
A potentially damning report from Israel-based cybersecurity firm Cyberint has revealed that Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group “Mustang Panda” conducted three cyber espionage campaigns against entities in the South Pacific, including the Philippine government, in August 2023.
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has identified several scams that the public should be vigilant about, including fake accommodations, where villas, apartments, or seemingly legitimate hotel rooms that are advertised at “unbelievably low rates” but are non-existent.
The House of Representatives announced Thursday that its IT team has successfully blocked a staggering 541.66 million attacks on its website on Wednesday, March 13, indicating what industry experts call a Distributed Denial-of-Service or DDoS attack.
Acer Philippines acknowledged that a security incident happened involving its third-party vendor managing employee attendance data. It assured the public that no breach or leak of any customer data occurred, and that customer data remains unaffected by the incident and are secure.
PNP ACG took down their website following a claim on Sunday, March 3, by the hacking group Philippines Exodus Security and Vend3tta from Philippine Cyber Mafia that they had managed to enter PNP ACG's systems and gained access to internal SQL databases.
Banking professionals from across 13 of the leading banks in the country completed courses under the training program developed by Cisco Networking Academy.
