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No idle punt: Why Singapore called out cyber saboteur UNC3886 by name
Singapore’s naming of cyber threat group signals to state actors that their infiltration is known and is being countered.
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Cyber attacks on civilian infrastructure aren’t unprecedented, says the writer.
PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
When the Government revealed that the country’s critical infrastructure was under attack from cyber threat group UNC3886, Singaporeans responded by snapping up those 4-D betting numbers. From a glass-half-full perspective this, at least, showed that the message was heard.
This was “peak Singapore” behaviour, as one commentator put it on X.
