Cyber threats against S’pore to climb as more services go digital

**Embargo till 9 am on Sep 21, 2023 (SG Time)**

Exercise Forging Sabre 2023 (XFS23) is a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) integrated sense and strike exercise involving more than 1100 personnel from across the SAF and Defence Technology Community. It will include a suite of sense and strike assets from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) and the Singapore Army. Conducted from 11 to 30 September at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, US, the SAF is able to conduct large-scale and realistic training in a vast training area with an airspace more than 20 times the size of Singapore.

This year’s exercise also features the inaugural participation of the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) as a full- fledged Service following its inauguration in 2022, effectively adding to the SAF’s Sense-Strike capability.
Working together as an integrated and technologically advanced fighting force, the SAF is able to sharpen our integrated sense and strike capabilities and validate the SAF’s abilities to conduct multi-domain smart warfighting.

In 2022, Singapore established its fourth military service to defend its cyberspace.

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Osmond Chia

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SINGAPORE – Singapore is not spared from cyber attacks as its services digitalise at a rapid pace.

In the country’s worst cyber attack to date, the personal data of 1.5 million citizens, including that of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, was stolen in 2018 from SingHealth, the country’s largest group of healthcare institutions.

Cyber threats against S’pore to climb as more services go digital

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