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Seoul, South Korea ― South Korea has expressed support for the United Kingdom’s public attribution of a cyber espionage campaign to Russian military intelligence, joining a growing chorus of international condemnation against malicious Russian cyber activities. On July 18, the British government announced it had formally attributed the use of a sophisticated malware—dubbed “Authentic Antics”—to […]
“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. In recent months, governments and cybersecurity researchers have observed a consistent rise in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, state agencies and private entities. International law enforcement operations, financially motivated thefts and state-linked espionage campaigns have revealed significant vulnerabilities across digital ecosystems. This […]
As enterprise systems grow more automated and interconnected, cybersecurity is no longer just a matter of defending the perimeter. For Pega, a maker of low-code process automation tools used across regulated industries, security is a question of balance—between openness and control, speed and stability, autonomy and oversight. And that balance, according to Chief Cloud Officer […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam and Dain Oh in South Korea. An eight-hour fire at a data center has brought about unexpected consequences for South Korea, unplugging critical services for at least three days. KakaoTalk is an instant messaging application that 92% of South Koreans access daily. The South Korean president considered the Kakao outage […]
As drug trafficking is rising as a nationwide problem, South Korean prosecutors will form a drug squad which will specifically monitor the dark web and its illegal drug trade, reported local news outlets referring to an official document submitted by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office on Thursday. According to the reports, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office plans […]
The South Korean police arrested an alleged leader and second in command of a criminal gang based in the Philippines. The suspects were involved in cross-border telephone fraud targeting South Koreans from 2017 to 2021. The Korean National Police Agency said in a press release on Thursday that the two suspects, who are both in […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his team of chief secretaries on Monday to launch a task force dedicated to national security in response to the chaos which unplugged the nation for at least three days. The task force will be led by the Office of National Security. Kim Sung-han, the National Security Adviser, will […]
Authorities said on Monday that it had shut down a malicious website that was abusing the nation-wide confusion caused by a fire at a data center of South Korea’s popular mobile messenger company, Kakao Talk. The Ministry of Science and ICT said in a press release that the ministry and the Korea Internet & Security […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam in South Korea. During the past week of state audits, Korean government agencies faced severe criticism from the Congress over cybersecurity. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and ICT were no exception. Among the various revelations from the audit, The Readable has picked one notable news story […]
Hello, this is Kuksung Nam and Dain Oh in South Korea. The Readable has picked four news stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. Korean government’s cloud computing policy draws sharp criticism from lawmakers South Korean lawmakers denounced the government’s new cloud computing cybersecurity certificate on Tuesday at the parliamentary audit, saying that the […]
A South Korean lawmaker sharply criticized the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and its affiliated public institutions for a lack of cybersecurity awareness. “Although the cybersecurity posture of the affiliated public institutions turns out to be alarming every year, the department and its institutions do not make the effort to improve,” said Eom Tae-young, […]
Hello, this is Dain Oh and Kuksung Nam in South Korea. The Readable has picked four news stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. Korean telecom giant leaked its staff information onto the dark web One of the largest telecommunication companies in South Korea was confirmed to have leaked its employees’ personal information onto […]
South Korean military detected 42,847 cases of attempted hacking on its computer network from 2017 to 2021. More than eleven thousand hacking attempts were conducted last year trying to break into the military’s computer network, which is almost three times more than five years ago. According to a press release on Tuesday by Lim Byung-heon, […]
