Korea's science ministry adds cyber incident metric to research institute evaluations after report of 0.6% server antivirus rate at KISTI
Announced October 14, 2026
Verified (fact)
Dong-A Ilbo reported that 18 of 23 government-funded research institutes have antivirus installed on less than a third of their servers, and that the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has antivirus on only 67 of 11,132 servers (0.6%). In an explanatory statement, Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT presented four responses, including expanding antivirus installation starting with externally facing servers and adding a cyber incident metric to institute evaluations.
Why it matters (interpretation)
As AI-assisted hacking grows, basic security hygiene at national research institutes has become a policy evaluation item.
Confidence medium · official source pending
Sources
- Press 사이버 침해, 국가연구기관 평가에 포함한다 ZDNet Korea
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