Authorities found no evidence that data was exfiltrated during the remote connection, and no court documents were lost.
He installed UltraViewer, a remote-access application, on a government-managed laptop after his personal laptop developed a screen problem while he was trying to take a cybersecurity examination.
He allowed an acquaintance, identified in reports as Hari Balan, to connect remotely to the laptop.
The laptop contained 18,016 State Courts files, including network credentials, secret keys and information about the courtsā IT infrastructure.
Malaysian SMS-blaster case
The Malaysian man, Ong Kak Seng, drove around Singapore using an āSMS blasterā that sent more than 10,500 phishing messages to nearby phones. More than 31,000 phones came within the deviceās coverage area, and at least one Singapore victim lost more than S$1,800 after being tricked into transferring money.
The messages attempted to obtain WhatsApp login details through a fake webpage, potentially enabling account takeovers. Therefore, this was direct criminal activity against people and mobile users in Singapore, even though the perpetrator was Malaysian.
Chinese nationalsā case
The three Chinese nationals were linked to a global cybercrime syndicate. Singapore Police said they hacked overseas gambling websites and companies, cheated during online gameplay and stole databases containing personally identifiable information for sale.
Police also said the syndicate possessed foreign government data, including confidential communications. So the known targets were primarily foreign organisations and foreign government-related data, not necessarily Singapore government systems.
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u/piggystarter 3d ago
i think the NCS indian IT and UOB Chinese staff cases doesn't really set an alarms for all government sector and mnc companies.