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Gyeonggi-do, Korea – AhnLab (CEO Sukkyoon Kang), a leader in cybersecurity, today announced its top five predictions for cybersecurity threats expected to emerge in 2025. The prediction projects a wide range of insights across the cybersecurity industry, including: “The 2025 cybersecurity landscape will become much more complex and challenging due to advancements in AI technology […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. Our journalists select important news items from the previous week on topics ranging from privacy to policy development in cybersecurity, all to help you stay abreast of the latest breaking issues. And not only is this provided free of cost to […]
Daily Briefing is a curated listicle made available by The Readable. We select a handful of significant stories worth sharing with our readers and present them in an easy-to-read, accessible format. Dain Oh and Minkyung Shin collaborate in monitoring, selecting, and reviewing the news articles, with Arthur Gregory Willers contributing to improve the overall readability […]
The Financial Security Institute of South Korea released a cyber threat intelligence report on Wednesday regarding Masscan ransomware in an effort to prep private organizations against upcoming attacks. In addition to attack timelines, the report describes the tactics, techniques, and procedures, or TTPs, of Masscan ransomware in detail. Unlike other ransomware, Masscan first encrypts desktop […]
Smartphone applications are becoming more convenient for users, providing multiple services from chatting to shopping in a single operation. However, this trend could be putting users’ personal information at high risk, an expert in mobile security said Tuesday. “If a traditional application was hacked and 10% of the users’ personal data was leaked, a super […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter that is sent to The Readable’s subscribers every Friday. Cybersecurity journalists for The Readable carefully select important news stories from the previous week and deliver them in a compact form. Topics encompass cybercrime, geopolitics, and privacy. There are no costs involved with a subscription, and some content, such as […]
The Cyber Threat Intelligence Korea Conference was held on Wednesday, gathering leaders and experts in the cybersecurity industry in one place. The Readable, as the media sponsor for the conference, has highlighted some of the important statements by the speakers. You can also find more information about the speeches in the news articles that we […]
The most important part of the cybersecurity domain in the following year in East Asia will be the strategic competition between the U.S. and China, an expert on the Asia-Pacific region’s threat intelligence said on Wednesday. “The U.S. and China are building a more and more intensive [strategic] competition,” said Chang Checheng, a cyber threat […]
A black hat hacker who attempted to sell the personal information of 31 million South Koreans on the dark web was identified in less than half a day with the assistance of artificial intelligence, an expert disclosed on Wednesday. “The initial report about the hacker was too sensitive to share with anyone but law enforcement,” […]
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The acronym FUD is a familiar word in the cybersecurity industry. It often plays a role in marketing as a way of making potential customers feel terrified and urging them to adopt cybersecurity products in response to upcoming attacks. The purpose of FUD varies. It can be used to inflate brand […]
The Lazarus hacking group, which authorities say has links with the North Korean government, has created a fake website that is linked with a malicious code to target cryptocurrency users, a private cybersecurity firm reported. According to a report by Volexity on December 1, the hacking group created a new website in June of this […]
By Dain Oh and Kuksung Nam, The ReadableDec. 2, 2022 11:11PM KST “Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter that is sent to The Readable’s subscribers every Friday. Cybersecurity journalists for The Readable carefully select important news stories from the previous week and deliver them in a compact form. Topics encompass cybercrime, geopolitics, and privacy. There […]
The South Korean intelligence agency has opened the cybersecurity collaboration center on Wednesday, which is specifically designed to promote information sharing between the private and public sector concerning cybersecurity and collaborative responses to cyber threats on a national level. The National Intelligence Service announced on November 30 that it opened the cybersecurity collaboration center in […]
