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Korea’s Malicious Mobile Phishing Cases See 210-Fold Increase in Three Years

Korea’s Malicious Mobile Phishing Cases See 210-Fold Increase in Three Years

SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of smishing or SMS phishing has skyrocketed over the past three years, a whopping 210-fold increase during the period.  In 2010, when a reported case of smishing first appeared, there was only one such case in the nation. In 2013, however, the number of the smartphone-based fraudulent [...]

Government Agencies and Financial Authorities Unite to Fight New Types of Financial Frauds

Government Agencies and Financial Authorities Unite to Fight New Types of Financial Frauds

SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid losses from smishing attacks and wire frauds keep rising even with the government’s continued efforts to fight them off, the financial authorities once again have rolled up their sleeves to eradicate the electronic financial fraud by implementing a comprehensive preventive measures. The Korea Financial Services Commission hosted on August 12, “Telecommunication [...]

ICT Ministry Mandates All Web-Relayed SMS to Be Marked with a Sign

ICT Ministry Mandates All Web-Relayed SMS to Be Marked with a Sign

SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea on July 20, it has mandated all Internet-delivered text messages to be marked with a “[Web Relayed]” sign and has implemented a “Prevention of Piracy of Numbers in Web-based Smishing” service for use by individuals. Web-relayed SMS have [...]

Police Agency Develops Anti-smishing Application

Police Agency Develops Anti-smishing Application

SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on May 21 that it had distributed free-of-charge “SClean,” an application which the agency developed would prevent instances smishing or SMS phishing. SClean is a compound word for “smishing” and “cleaner.” The application is designed to shut off the apps that have been [...]

Smishing Messages Rampant Disguised as Newsflashes on Korean Ferry Disaster

Smishing Messages Rampant Disguised as Newsflashes on Korean Ferry Disaster

SEOUL, Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Cases of phone scams and smishing for text, designed to lure innocent people after the South Korea’s ferry disaster to log onto bogus news, have been rampant of late and the local authorities have come up with a series of measures to cope with the unprecedented crisis moments [...]

AhnLab to Begin “Smishing Alarm” Service on Its SNS Sites

AhnLab to Begin “Smishing Alarm” Service on Its SNS Sites

SEOUL, Korea, Nov 14 (Korea Bizwire) – AhnLab Inc., Korea’s major security software developer, is set to provide a service to prevent “smishing,” the act of attempting to acquire personal information such as passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity through text messages, by sending out “AhnLab Smishing Alarm” in its social networking [...]