SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Reports of ransomware attacks in South Korea have surged in the past year, shutting down hospitals to shopping malls as the coronavirus pandemic led to increased online activities. On Thursday, a major plastic surgery hospital in southern Seoul posted on its website that its servers had been breached by [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s military intelligence unit was found to have been behind cyber attacks against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea’s alpine town of PyeongChang, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. The Justice Department, together with the FBI, charged six officers of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Cybercrimes increased nearly 14 percent in South Korea last year to reach about 150,000 cases, the National Police Agency (NPA) said in a report Thursday, warning that phishing scams based on messengers and emails are expected to further evolve this year. A total of 149,604 cybercrimes occurred in the [...]
MAHWAH, N.J., Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Radware® (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, has released its 2017-2018 Global Application and Network Security Report, which found that the percentage of companies reporting financially motivated cyber-attacks has doubled over the past two years, with 50% of surveyed companies experiencing a cyber-attack [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Malicious code found in an Android bible app has been linked to a North Korean hacker group. A hacker group thought to be from North Korea has reportedly planted malicious code in modified versions of the Android bible reading app ‘Godpeople’ which has been downloaded through an illegal app [...]