Gov’t to bolster efforts to root out phishing scams

The government is establishing a pan-government control body in an organized effort to eradicate voice phishing crimes, the country’s top financial regulator said Friday. A monitoring center under the presidential office will take charge, supported by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the police to outline more effective countermeasures, including prevention measures. The police workforce will be strengthened to include specialized officers and investigators to provide more systematic, continuous victim support and perpetrator identification. Also mobilized will be the Presidential Secretary for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Future Planning as well as the Ministry of Science and ICT. The country’s three major telecom service providers will devise technical support. The FSC is seeking to set up an around-the-clock monitoring system among financial institutions, telecom service providers and law enforcement to detect and prevent voice phishing. The integrated system will expand the current fraud detection system (FDS), long limited to financial entities to monitor suspicious trWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times