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Authors: Tuhu Nugraha and Raine Renaldi* In the first part of this article, we identified various digital risks associated with the implementation of smart cities in developing countries. These risks include cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats to data privacy, widening digital divides, dependence on foreign technology, and unforeseen social and economic impacts. In this second part, we will discuss strategies to mitigate these risks, ensuring that smart cities can achieve their desired benefits while minimizing potential negative impacts. Risk mitigation is crucial because, without proper preventive measures, these risks can hinder the development of smart cities and result in significant losses. Cybersecurity…
he widespread adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in many sectors has made cybersecurity a pressing concern for many stakeholders, both in the private and public sectors. This is particularly true for critical infrastructure systems, such as power grids, healthcare services and financial institutions.In recent years, Indonesia’s critical infrastructure systems have been targeted by a wide range of cyberthreats that usually aim to gain control of and deny access to critical systems, or to encrypt, delete or steal important data in the systems. These attacks can cause financial losses to the country’s economy and disrupt essential services. From 2017…
A ransomware cybercriminal group Lockbit 3.0 claimed on Saturday (14/5) that they have acquired 1.5 terabytes of data from PT Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI). This massive breach comprises of sensitive personal information belonging to a staggering 15 million customers and staff members of the bank. This personal information data includes phone numbers, addresses, names, document information, account numbers, card numbers, and transactions. It also included financial documents, legal paperwork, non-disclosure agreement (NDA) contracts, and passwords for both internal and external bank services. Following the unsuccessful 72-hour deadline for BSI management to resolve this issue, Lockbit 3.0 is suspected to have…
July 3, 2024Information hallCyber attack / malware Cybersecurity researchers discovered an attack campaign targeting various Israeli organizations with public frameworks such as Donut and Sliver. The company, which is said to be highly targeted at its core, “uses targeted WordPress infrastructure and custom websites as a payload delivery engine, but targets various entities in unrelated verticals and relies on well-known open source malware” , HarfangLab said in last week’s report. A French company tracks activity called “As Supposedly a Grasshopper.” This is a link to an attacker-controlled server (“auth.economy-gov-il(.)com/SUPPOSED_GRASSHOPPER.bin”) to which the first-stage downloader connects. Written in Nim, this loader…
This week’s focus Pinduoduo-owned Temu faces possible regulatory challenges in Indonesia as it plans to enter the country with its direct-to-consumer sales model, conflicting with local laws requiring an intermediary. Isy Karim, director general of domestic trade, stated that Temu has not yet applied for an e-commerce license. Local officials are concerned about the impact on jobs and consumer prices, with the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce fearing price drops due to the lack of intermediaries. Temu, which launched in the US in September 2022 and operates in over 70 markets, recently expanded into Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Malaysia.…
General Tô Lâm, Minister of Public Security (right) and Deputy Chief of the Indonesian National Police (INP) Commissioner General Agus Andrianto – VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — General Tô Lâm, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security, on May 20 hosted a reception for Deputy Chief of the Indonesian National Police (INP) Commissioner General Agus Andrianto.The Indonesian official is in Vietnam to attend the third security dialogue at the deputy ministerial level between Vietnam and Indonesia.Lâm highlighted that over the past 70 years, the friendship and cooperation between the two countries have…
Hundreds of Government agencies in Indonesia have been disrupted after hacking group, Lockbit, used an advanced piece of malicious software called Lockbit 3.0 to breach cyber defences.Immigration checkpoints stopped working and manual checks had to be undertaken, leading to long queues at airports across the nation. The head of the Immigration service moved its data centre other than a private cloud server after the system went down.“Generally, technical problems can be resolved in a matter of one to three hours. When it exceeded six hours, we concluded that there must be something bigger than just technical problems, maybe caused by…
JAKARTA – Health experts and rights groups have criticised a new draft law in Indonesia, saying it puts citizens’ health data at risk. The Health Bill, when passed into law, will allow the authorities to collect and use a wide range of Indonesians’ health data, including their genomic data, and process it outside the country. But this means the trove of data will be rendered more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by malicious parties, the experts say. The collection of genomic data may enable researchers to analyse types of diseases in a population and find ways to cure them, but…
ABC International Development (ABCID) has launched a new media development initiative in Indonesia, the third largest democracy and fourth most populated country in the world.Disinformation and misinformation have become some of the biggest threats to trust on the Internet globally, and particularly in Asia. With Indonesia accounting for over half of Southeast Asia’s 400 million internet users, this project aims to strengthen digital literacy of Indonesian independent media and their audiences tackling personal data protection and online violence as one of the most pressing issues.Indonesia’s digital literacy index increased from 3.46 in 2020 to 3.54 in 2022, with digital safety…
July 3, 2024Information hallMalware poisoning / SEO Bootloader as a Service (LaaS), known as FakeBat, has become one of the most common bootloader malware families distributed using the autobot download method this year, Sekoia findings show. “FakeBat is primarily aimed at loading and executing a next-stage payload, e.g IcedID, Lamma, Red line, SmokeLoader, Sectopratand Ursnif,” company said in Tuesday’s analysis. Drive-by attacks involve the use of techniques such as search engine optimization (SEO), malicious advertising, and injecting malicious code into compromised sites to trick users into downloading fake software installers or browser updates. The use of malware downloaders over the…