According to reports, the South Korean police opened an investigation into the recent hacking of financial institutions and set up a special investigation team of 28 people to investigate. The National Investigation Division of the National Police Agency said on the 6th that after confirming the objective factual relationship, the case was officially filed on the grounds that it was suspected of violating the “Information and Communications Network Law”. Considering the seriousness of the incident, the police have designated the police department's cyber terrorist attack investigation team as a special investigation team for this case and are studying whether to report the case to the Serious Crimes Investigation Department. Recently, seven financial companies, including Shinhan Bank of Korea, KB Kookmin Bank, and Bank of Korea Asia, have been hacked, and signs of the same attackers using artificial intelligence to carry out attacks have been discovered in many places.

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