SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state intelligence agency said Wednesday it has identified more than 100 sets of Internet of Things (IoT) equipment in the country that have been infected with malware. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it has detected the Mozi botnet infection after cooperating with Russian authorities in December [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Tuesday the country reported 78 ransomware attacks in the first half of the year in the latest sign of growing cyberattacks. Ransomware is a type of malware that holds a target’s data hostage or locks up its systems until a ransom is paid. It [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A new type of malware that targets shoppers making purchases directly from overseas websites has surfaced recently, requiring shoppers to be savvier about shopping online, especially from foreign websites. AhnLab, Inc., a security software provider founded in 1995, revealed today that it had discovered malware that was distributed disguised [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Skybox® Security, a global leader in cybersecurity management, announced today the release of its mid-year update to the Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report which analyzes vulnerabilities, exploits and threats in play. The report, compiled by the team of security analysts at the Skybox® Research Lab, aims to help [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Malware sophistication is increasing as adversaries begin to weaponize cloud services and evade detection through encryption, used as a tool to conceal command-and-control activity. To reduce adversaries’ time to operate, security professionals said they will increasingly leverage and spend more on tools that use AI and machine [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea was the sixth-biggest target of Trojan horse malware attacks in mobile banking last year, a multinational cybersecurity firm said Thursday. The most vulnerable country was Russia, followed by Australia, according to the Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2016. The Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider, Kaspersky Lab, said it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Military investigators looking into the first hacking of South Korea’s cyber command intranet said Wednesday the suspected North Korean attackers accessed the network through a server at the armed forces’ main information center. The findings raised concerns that confidential information may have been compromised as the affected server is [...]
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 [...]
SAN JOSE, CA, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled a host of new capabilities and services that give security professionals extensive intelligence and analysis on potential compromises and solutions to protect against, respond to and recover from attacks. Cisco announces the addition of AMP Threat Grid to the Cisco® Advanced Malware [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – AhnLab, Korea’s major security software provider, came up with “Black SHEEP” as a keyword of expected trends threatening cyber security this year. The word “black sheep” is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group. AhnLab choose the word as the technology or environment that [...]