North Korean job scammers target JavaScript and Python developers with fake interview tasks spreading malware

Operation Dream Job is evolving once again, and now comes through malicious dependencies on bare-bones projects.

Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...
The New York Times

Five Years After Myanmar Coup, ‘Even Hope Has Become a Risk’

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many urbanites have become desperate. The downtown of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city ...
The Conversation

With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own

Associate Professor Emma Palmer is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Australian Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597) funded by the Australian Government. The views ...
The Irrawaddy

U.S. Extends Myanmar ‘Emergency’ so Sanctions Against Junta Can Continue

U.S. President Donald Trump this week extended the declaration of a “national emergency” in Myanmar for another year, a step that allows American sanctions against the military regime to continue.
Associated Press

Myanmar military-backed party declared election winner as army plans new body to maintain control

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Myanmar military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung ...
CNN

China executes 11 members of gang who ran billion-dollar criminal empire in Myanmar

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.
The Diplomat

ASEAN Foreign Ministers Discuss Myanmar, South China Sea at Cebu Retreat

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at their annual retreat in Cebu, Philippines, Jan. 28, 2026. Credit: Facebook/ASEAN 2026 PH Southeast Asia’s top diplomats met ...
Human Rights Watch

Myanmar: Junta Atrocities Surge 5 Years since Coup

(Tokyo) – Myanmar’s military junta has committed widespread repression and abuse in every facet of life in the country since seizing power on February 1, 2021, Amnesty International, Fortify Rights, ...
The Irrawaddy

Thai Foreign Minister Says Hopes Myanmar Polls ‘Start of Transition’ to Peace

CEBU, Philippines—Thailand’s foreign minister said Thursday that he hoped Myanmar’s recent election would be the “start of a transition” that could ultimately lead to a sustainable peace in the civil ...
The Conversation

5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart

As a pro vice-chancellor at the University of Tasmania, Nicholas Farrelly engages with a wide range of organisations and stakeholders on educational, cultural and political issues, including at the ...
The New York Times

All-Night Concerts Bring Fleeting Normalcy in a War-Ravaged Nation

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy. U Chit Myo Htike, known by his stage name Phoe Chit, ...