SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday that it raised the alert level against cyberattacks by one notch in a bid to better fend off an expected increase in cyberattacks from North Korea and others on the country’s major agencies and businesses. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning raised its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Last month’s Korean launch of Niantic’s Pokémon GO has put law enforcement agencies on high alert, mainly against trespassing and Pokémon GO driving, and officials are now advising players to also take heed against cybercrimes. According to the Korean National Police Agency, extra apps that can help players to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A new printer hack that was reported on in the U.S. last week has also reached South Korea. EST Security, a local web security firm, said Monday that it was aware of multiple instances of customers reporting that their devices printed messages saying “your printer has been owned,” and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – More cyber attacks on key government agencies and social infrastructure-related facilities, coupled with increased ransomware programs for mobile and desktop computers, are likely to take place next year, a state-run agency said Monday. According to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), a series of cyber attacks may occur [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Emails of dozens of South Korean defense and diplomatic officials and journalists have been hacked by North Korea this year, and the prosecution is looking into whether any state secrets have been leaked, the prosecution said Monday. Emails of some 90 officials from the defense, diplomatic and unifications ministries, [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, hackers took over a Jeep Cherokee travelling on a highway in the United States. They breached the vehicle’s Uconnect system from some 15 kilometers away with a single laptop, controlling everything from the car’s air conditioning system to the windshield wipers. The age of the Internet of [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Police said Tuesday they have arrested a South Korean high school student, who follows the international hacktivist group Anonymous, on charges of hacking some thousands of domestic and foreign websites since last year. The 16-year-old, whose identity was withheld, is suspected of defacing a total of 3,847 websites from [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Estsoft, a Korean software manufacturer, revealed Thursday a new daily record for the number of ransomware attacks that its vaccine program, Alyac, has blocked. Ransomeware refers to a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. The total [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean hacking group is suspected of launching cyberattacks against a South Korean cybersecurity service firm amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, state prosecutors said Tuesday. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said the group allegedly first hacked into the company, whose identity was withheld, in November [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent hacking attempt on South Korea’s Air Force’s website apparently used methods mostly employed by North Korean hackers, a military source said Friday, raising suspicion that Pyongyang might have been behind the cyberattack. Military authorities have been conducting an investigation into a suspected hacking attempt into the official [...]