Shin Yong-seok, previously the Chief Privacy Officer at Viva Republica, was appointed as the Secretary to the President for Cybersecurity on February 26. Marking a significant departure from tradition, Shin’s appointment represents the first instance of a private sector professional being selected for this role. Since its establishment in March 2015, the position has been […]

South Korea is advancing its efforts to safeguard critical national technologies. Three years after its creation, the division within the intellectual property agency dedicated to combating technology theft has been elevated to a regulatory division. In a Tuesday announcement, the Korean Intellectual Property Office revealed that the Technology & Design Special Judicial Police, operating under […]

The South Korean police announced on Monday their pursuit of an individual suspected of producing a manipulative video featuring the country’s President, Yoon Suk-yeol. During a press briefing, Cho Ji-ho, the commissioner of the Seoul Metropolitan Police, revealed that authorities have identified the username of the individual alleged to have uploaded the fabricated video. The […]

Several South Korean government agencies responsible for national cyber defense collaborated with the British military to conduct a joint international cyber exercise. This cooperative training, aimed at testing their combined capabilities to counter cyberattacks, concluded on February 16 after a week-long session. In an email statement to The Readable on February 21, the British Embassy […]

In early 2024, several member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were targeted in cyberattacks linked to China-backed threat actors. These incidents encompassed espionage campaigns directed at government agencies and cyberattacks on vital infrastructure, orchestrated by Chinese entities. While both cyber espionage campaigns and cyberattacks on critical infrastructure pose significant threats to […]

South Korea’s Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) announced on Monday its plans to compile statistics on the cybersecurity workforce. This initiative, requested by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), will be included in the “National Statistics Development Project.” The MSIT’s request for “cybersecurity workforce status statistics” is tied to the creation of the Information Security Industrial […]

By Kuksung Nam, The Readable Feb. 19, 2024 9:03PM GMT+9 On Monday, cybersecurity experts from both the public and private sectors gathered to commemorate the establishment of a new association dedicated to assisting South Korean lawmakers in drafting legislation pertinent to the cybersecurity field. During the inaugural general meeting held at the National Assembly Member’s […]

A professor from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has been sentenced to two years in prison by an appellate court for leaking core autonomous vehicle technologies to China. This decision, made on February 15, overturns the original sentence which had granted probation. The Daejeon District Court imposed a two-year prison sentence […]

Despite their shared communist ideology and recent efforts to enhance their bilateral relationship, Vietnam has identified Chinese hacker groups Mustang Panda and the advanced persistent threat (APT) actors APT31 as significant espionage threats for 2024. The Vietnamese government, drawing on an analysis by Bkav, a top cybersecurity firm in Vietnam, has released a report highlighting […]

A digital watchdog group uncovered a vast network of at least 123 fake news sites on Wednesday, originating in China and spread across 30 countries, designed to promote pro-Beijing propaganda while undermining criticisms of the Chinese government. This revelation showed that the Chinese influence operation extended well beyond the South Korean border, where similar fake […]