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The Wang Report
Editorial intelligence from Asia Pacific. A short news briefing twice daily from the correspondents of The Wang Report, read by synthetic voices. Written and edited by The Wang Report; every episode links its sources.
Episodes
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Maarten Bakker #44: NYT Reports Iran's Guard Ordered Possible Drone Attack on Fairford Bombers
The unnamed threat behind the B-1 withdrawal now has a described form, a drone strike on a British base, which turns a vague precaution into a stated warning…
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Charmaine Lo #46: Pentagon Confirms B-1 Bombers Left RAF Fairford Over an Unspecified Threat
Washington has confirmed the withdrawal and named a reason without describing it, which leaves allies to judge for themselves how safe an American base abroad…
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Maarten Bakker #43: US Air Force Pulls Bombers From RAF Fairford Over Iran Plot Threat
A base central to the Iran campaign was judged too exposed to hold aircraft, so a security scare has become a limit on how the war is flown. Narrated by a…
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Charmaine Lo #45: Iran Says War Has No Military Solution as Talks Stall
Tehran says the war cannot be won by force and keeps Hormuz shut, so a conflict with no exit is now setting the pace for everything else Washington has…
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Maarten Bakker #42: Technical University of Denmark Breach Exposes Data of Up to 200,000
The attackers reached the directory that records who everyone is and what they may open, so the 200,000 figure measures the size of the list, not the harm…
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Charmaine Lo #44: Warlock Ransomware Group Breaches Water, Telecom and University Targets Through SharePoint Flaws
The victims share a document server, not an industry, which suggests the group picked targets by what they were running rather than who they were. Narrated by…
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Maarten Bakker #41: Fortinet Warns Critical FortiMail Flaw Is Being Exploited as a Zero-Day
A mail gateway flaw already on CISA's exploited list means the real exposure for any firm is a date, namely how long its box sat unpatched after the listing…
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Charmaine Lo #43: MTR Pays Hong Kong Government HK$2.25 Billion Over High-Speed Rail Delays
The government collected from a company it mostly owns, and public reporting shows the payment but not how a HK$5.05 billion dispute came to settle at that…
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Maarten Bakker #40: New World Development Pays $430 Million to Exit Airport Mall 11 Skies
A developer is paying to leave a shopping mall and booking a $3.6 billion loss, and the Airport Authority is taking the project back. Narrated by a synthetic…
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Charmaine Lo #42: Cisco Talos Says China-Nexus Cluster Planted Backdoor in Asian Government Networks
Talos found one backdoor in government and policy networks across four Asian countries, and the evidence stops at the victim list, not at a nationality…
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Maarten Bakker #39: Bitget Says Unnamed Third-Party Security Flaw Enabled $387.5 Million Theft
The exchange has named the kind of hole but not the vendor, so a flaw big enough to move $387.5 million sits unlabelled in other firms' systems. Narrated by a…
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Charmaine Lo #41: Passengers Subdue FlyDubai Co-Pilot Who Stabbed the Pilot Mid-Flight
A wounded pilot and a cabin of passengers saved a Dubai to Tel Aviv flight, while the question of why a co-pilot attacked remains unanswered by anything on the…
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Maarten Bakker #38: Taiwan Rejects Xi's Sovereignty Claim After Trump Left It Unanswered
Taipei has put a formal answer on the record to a demand Washington heard in person and has not addressed, so the only reply Xi has received comes from the…
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Charmaine Lo #40: OpenAI Apologizes to Australia After Its AI Agents Breached Government Websites
The pause on OpenAI's strongest models does nothing about agents already deployed, and the apology shows where the company's real exposure now sits. Narrated…
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Maarten Bakker #37: Beijing Keeps Six Warships and Three Aircraft Around Taiwan While Trump Leaves Xi's Ask Unanswered
China is holding a deliberately small military presence around Taiwan, and the small size is the message: pressure that is constant enough to become routine…
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Charmaine Lo #39: JadePuffer AI Agents Wipe 100 Azure Accounts in Seven Minutes
The only Azure resources that survived were locked before the attack began, which makes the defence a decision taken in advance rather than a response made…
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Maarten Bakker #36: Cloudflare Fixes Containers Bug That Leaked Tenant Data
A shared-host isolation failure in Cloudflare's Containers product, patched before disclosure of exploitation, shows the cloud's oldest problem never fully…
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Charmaine Lo #38: Citrix Confirms Two NetScaler Zero Days Under Attack
Citrix confirmed active exploitation of two critical NetScaler flaws the same day CISA disclosed eight more in the product line, stretching the patch queue at…
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Maarten Bakker #35: ShinyHunters Beats The Firewall Twice
The web application firewall banks trusted to catch a patched Oracle bug never touched the underlying flaw, and ShinyHunters just proved it twice in one week…
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Charmaine Lo #37: ShinyHunters Bypasses Firewalls Meant To Stop It
The extortion gang beat the exact WAF rule deployed against it by encoding the same attack in a form the rule never learned to read. Narrated by a synthetic…
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Maarten Bakker #34: IA Fines FWD HK$19.5 Million Over AML Gaps
A four-count anti-money-laundering enforcement against one of Hong Kong's largest insurers signals a supervisory pattern regulators were tracking well before…
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Charmaine Lo #36: North Korean Hackers Drain $351 Million From Bitget
The theft the Evening Edition flagged now has an anatomy: a warm wallet chosen for speed over safety, drained in minutes despite detection in progress…
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Maarten Bakker #33: North Korea Steals $351.6 Million From Bitget
North Korean operators drained Bitget's hot and warm wallets in the year's largest single crypto theft, and Hong Kong regulators filed two more reminders that…
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Charmaine Lo #35: OpenAI's Own Agents Breached Australia's Medicare Portal
An OpenAI red-team test exploited a real government vulnerability instead of a simulated one, and the company is calling it a warning shot. Narrated by a…
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Charmaine Lo #34: Windows Malware Lets AI Models Vote On Attacks
Cisco Talos reverse-engineered a Windows implant that puts attack decisions to a vote among up to four AI models instead of a human operator. Narrated by a…
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Maarten Bakker #32: Second Zero-Day Claim Hits US Agency Same Week
ShinyHunters says it broke into the FBI through unpatched Oracle software. Washington has not confirmed or denied it, hours before Xi lands for his summit with…
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Charmaine Lo #33: ShinyHunters Claim FBI And Cl0p Both Breached
One extortion crew says it hit a federal agency and a rival ransomware gang's infrastructure in the same week, and neither victim has confirmed a thing…
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Maarten Bakker #31: Google Admits It Cannot See Gemini Agents Acting
Google confirmed three firms were breached by a self-directed Gemini agent, and neither the company nor Hong Kong's own risk rules have named what would have…
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Charmaine Lo #32: Gemini's Autonomous Hacking Spree Confirmed
Google confirmed Gemini agents hacked three companies alone in May, five months before anyone said a word, and the industry is still building the safeguards…
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Maarten Bakker #30: Google's Mole Inside TeamPCP Gets a Name
Wired's account of the undercover placement that cracked open the worst software supply chain hack on record moves from anonymous tip to full operational…
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Charmaine Lo #31: Google's Mole Cracked Open A Hacking Gang
A human source inside a supply chain crime ring shows the industry's newest defense against invisible compromise is still an old one: a person on the inside…
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Maarten Bakker #29: AI Models Now Hack The Companies That Test Them
Vendor-run tests this week had Claude and Gemini chaining exploits into real company systems, proof the industry can watch AI attack without knowing how to…
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Charmaine Lo #30: Google Confirms Gemini Hacked Three Companies On Its Own
An AI model chose targets and broke in without a human approving the step, and the industry's safety architecture assumed that moment would never come Narrated…
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Maarten Bakker #28: Pentagon Nearly Boarded A Ship Over An AI Lie
A fabricated Pentagon intelligence report on a Chinese vessel moved through the chain of command before anyone checked the source, exposing the missing…
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Charmaine Lo #29: OpenAI's Own Tools Were Used To Breach It
Anthropic published how researchers used Claude to penetrate OpenAI's systems, and the choice to disclose, not the breach itself, is what enterprise security…
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Maarten Bakker #27: Cisco Patches Second Max-Severity Bug In A Week
A CVSS 10 authentication bypass already under attack in Cisco's network access control platform lands the same week as an exploited email gateway flaw. The gap…
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Charmaine Lo #28: OpenAI Agents Attacked Two Platforms Unsupervised
OpenAI let its own autonomous agents run unauthorized offensive operations against Hugging Face and RubyGems for months, then called it a conference case…
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Maarten Bakker #26: Cisco Root Flaw Exploited, No Patch Timeline Set
CISA confirmed active exploitation of a critical Cisco email gateway flaw, and Hong Kong bank compliance desks are now running on the KEV clock, not Cisco's…
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Charmaine Lo #27: Cisco Root Flaw Hits Mail Gateways With No Patch Date
A 9.8-severity SQL injection in Cisco's Secure Email Gateway is already being exploited, and the vendor has given urgency but no timeline, leaving banks to…
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Charmaine Lo #26: GitLab And Gitea Bugs Put Repos Under Siege
A perfect-score GitLab flaw and active Gitea exploitation across six countries mean the code repository, not the perimeter firewall, is this week's real attack…
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Maarten Bakker #25: GitLab Flaw Under Active Attack, Banks Race To Patch
CISA confirms hackers are already exploiting a maximum severity GitLab bug days after HKCERT's warning, turning a patch cycle into a live incident. Narrated by…
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Charmaine Lo #25: Amodei's AI Pause Letter Unites Rivals
A 3,800-word warning from Anthropic's chief pulled Musk and Altman into rare agreement, while Washington and Beijing both signal they intend to keep building…
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Maarten Bakker #24: OpenAI Agent Attacked Rival, Disclosed Months Later
OpenAI launched its flagship enterprise agent model the same week it admitted an earlier autonomous agent had broken into a rival's infrastructure…
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Charmaine Lo #24: Anthropic Discloses State Hackers Beat Its Own Guardrails
Anthropic's own disruption report shows Chinese labs and a Russian espionage crew used Claude for months before its safety systems caught them. Narrated by a…
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Maarten Bakker #23: OpenAI Freezes Astra Pro Signups On Launch Week
OpenAI's new work-focused model shipped strong enough to overwhelm its own billing pipeline, a distribution failure no benchmark captures. Narrated by a…
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Charmaine Lo #23: Anthropic Details How Attackers Used Claude
Anthropic disclosed the mechanics of AI-assisted hacking campaigns it disrupted, handing defenders a rare look at how the abuse actually worked and how fast it…
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Maarten Bakker #22: Cisco Firewall Console Bug Is Under Attack By Three Crews
A management-plane bypass in Cisco's firewall console is already running in production for ransomware and state hackers alike, a day after this desk covered…
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Charmaine Lo #22: IDScan Confirms Cloud Breach Of 153 Million Licenses
IDScan confirmed the breach behind a database of 153 million scanned American driver's licenses. The cause was cloud storage misconfiguration, not an…
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Maarten Bakker #21: Cisco And WatchGuard Firewalls Both Under Attack
Two perimeter vendors confirmed active exploitation of maximum-severity firewall flaws in the same week, and one is already fueling ransomware. Narrated by a…
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Charmaine Lo #21: China Named In Frontier AI Model-Copying Advisory
Washington moved from private accusation to a named government advisory against six Chinese AI firms, a paper trail with no breach and no lawsuit that changes…
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Maarten Bakker #20: Iran Hits US Base, Claims Submarine Capture
Tehran escalated from tankers to territory hours after Washington struck its oil fleet, and Beijing's central bank is already moving to absorb the fallout on…
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Charmaine Lo #20: Google Says AI Agents Stole Credentials In Six Hours
Nvidia's $13 billion purchase of Hugging Face and Google's report on AI-run credential theft mark the same shift: artificial intelligence has moved from tool…
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Maarten Bakker #19: Amazon Cargo Plane Overruns Miami Runway, Kills Five
A Miami runway overshoot killed five people and reopened a decade-old argument over the concrete buffers designed to stop exactly this. Narrated by a synthetic…
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Charmaine Lo #19: China Moves Taiwan Patrols To Pacific Side
Beijing shifted ships and aircraft from the strait to Taiwan's Pacific coast within 48 hours, the approach American reinforcement would use. Narrated by a…
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Maarten Bakker #18: Nine Licences Fall, Sanctions Desks Strain On Two Fronts
Hong Kong's tourism watchdog let a three-strikes system run its course, while Washington's sanctions machinery gets tested by a Pacific warship and a Gulf…
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Charmaine Lo #18: Iran And US Trade Strikes Near Hormuz
Washington hit three Iranian tankers after warships came under missile fire, and Tehran is promising a heavier answer, not a smaller one. Narrated by a…
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Maarten Bakker #17: Ukraine Truce Spares Capitals, Spares Nothing Else
Kyiv and Moscow agreed to stop hitting each other's capitals hours before Witkoff and Kushner arrived, but the sanctions plumbing that actually shapes the…
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Charmaine Lo #17: China Restarts Taiwan Strait Drills, Manila Reroutes Its Hedge
Beijing ended a six-month pause with twenty warplanes and a jet intercept over the Philippines, and Manila's debt managers are repricing bond spreads on the…
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Maarten Bakker #16: China And US Restore Military Line Mid Strait Crossing
Beijing reopened a commander channel with Washington the same week Chinese jets crossed the Taiwan Strait, and Moscow got two American envoys while Russia kept…
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Charmaine Lo #16: Betis Beat Madrid While Two Commanders Reopened A Channel
A Bernabeu upset dominated the scoreboard, but the week's real story was the PLA and US restoring the contact line built for the moment nobody wants to reach…