REACH (Telegram) 102 - What are your views on Singapore’s efforts in defending Singapore’s cyberspace? What more can be done locally and internationally?
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23 Oct 2025 (10am - 7pm)
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REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 9:46 am]
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REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 10:01 am]
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At the Opening Ceremony of the Singapore International Cyber Week 2025 on 21 October (Tuesday), Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam highlighted that Singapore has been under cyberattacks as our geopolitical situation and digital connectivity make us attractive targets. He outlined significant shifts in Singapore’s approach to defending our cyberspace to level the playing field between defenders and attackers and turn the tide against the threat actors. This year, there is a record number of SICW participants, from more than 90 countries, including US, China, and Russia.
๐ฌ What are your views on Singapore’s efforts in defending Singapore’s cyberspace? What more can be done locally and internationally?
๐ Acting Against Malicious Cyber Attackers
The Government will adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards cyber attackers. The Government will take action against them whether they are attacking targets here or using Singapore as a launch pad to attack other countries. Singapore has identified foreign actors attempting to influence its domestic politics, both in the physical world and on the internet. A network of six foreign nationals was also busted for targeting foreign governments from here. They had hacked into various overseas websites to steal the personal information of a significant number of people, which they subsequently sold for profit. Four of the foreign nationals have been charged with possessing hacking tools and malware on their devices. In addition to targeting the cyber attackers, the Government will take action against platforms that carry harmful content or are used by these bad actors as conduits, said Mr Shanmugam.
๐ Sharing Classified Threat Intelligence with Critical Sectors
Under Singapore’s Cybersecurity Act, critical infrastructure operators are held to higher cyber security standards and obligations, such as reporting any cyber security outages and attacks on their systems or supply chains, as long as these incidents affect their services. Mr Shanmugam stressed that regulations alone were not going to be enough. Amid a rise in state-sponsored malicious cyber attacks and cybercrime, there is a need to ensure that critical infrastructure owners are prepared to deal with increased threats. For the first time, the Government will also be sharing its classified threat intelligence with organisations in critical sectors, including energy, telecommunications and finance, to prevent cyber attacks that could jeopardise national security. This significant shift in approach was necessary to level the playing field “between defenders and attackers and turn the tide against the threat actors, said Mr Shanmugam.
๐ Building Trust with Countries and International Collaboration
Singapore will also continue to strengthen the rules-based international cyber order through international collaboration as cyber attacks can come from anywhere in the world and can be routed through any number of intermediate nodes. While different countries may have different views on offence and defence, some foundation of cooperation is necessary for a safe and secure cyberspace. With trust, countries can exchange information and support each other in times of crisis. Without it, countries will be hesitant to share intelligence, leaving all exposed and weakening the collective defence efforts. We are all going to be worse off if cyberspace degenerates into the law of the jungle where might equals right, and we will then see many of the benefits of digitalisation being reversed, said Mr Shanmugam.
๐ https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-government-to-share-classified-threat-intelligence-with-critical-sectors-to-beef-up
๐ https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/singapore-share-classified-threat-intelligence-critical-sectors-beef-national-security
๐ https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/speeches/singapore-international-cyber-week
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REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 11:02 am]
[ Poll : 1. I am supportive of the Government’s efforts in defending our cyberspace. Please share your reasons in the chat. ]
- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Neutral
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 11:02 am]
[ Poll : 2. I am supportive of Singapore’s efforts towards global cybersecurity issues and challenges. Please share your reasons in the chat. ]
- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Neutral
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 11:04 am]
Dear Contributors,
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๐ฌ What are your views on Singapore’s efforts in defending Singapore’s cyberspace? What more can be done locally and internationally?
Thank you.
Megan ๐
CTO, [23/10/2025 11:12 am]
As a nation, totally aiming towards digitalisation for the beautiful world of productivity/efficiency, defending Sg’s cyberspace is VERY essential.
Current many instances of SCAMs r somehow coming from being getting into ourselves into digitalisation.
Many had lost S$millions because of SCAMs.
Therefore, trying to go into digitalisation, DEFENDING our cyberspace is DEFINITELY a MUST!
Jun Ming, [23/10/2025 11:26 am]
Digitalisation is like another world unman and unlike physical crime police usually can catch the person within 24h in digitalise world i hardly heard that
Jun Ming, [23/10/2025 11:26 am]
A lot of people get away from cyber crime
Jun Ming, [23/10/2025 11:26 am]
As uncaught
Jun Ming, [23/10/2025 11:28 am]
So my take for the internet is a place without police hard to regulate. Need to be extremely cautious esp with the aid of ai is hard to tell if it's true or false information or is it a scam
Jun Ming, [23/10/2025 11:33 am]
Where got time as we are busy
1.)Phishing emails and SMS you need effort to detect
2.) fake ai videos you need to analyse if it is ai?
3.) scammers always requires immediate action posing as insurance agents where people don't have time to think. Lol. So multi gov cooperation to clamp down on this scam call centers is important too
Jun Ming, [23/10/2025 11:35 am]
But I think the cyber security they refering too is not scam. Is some people hacking websites. Which I think kind of far from us
Adam, [23/10/2025 11:44 am]
My worry is that they will make the definition of combating cyber crime too broad. Maybe take away our freedoms to reduce crime. Do we want to end up with a great firewall like china?
Another thing is if they utilised some measures to clamp down on certain practices, it will raise more vulnerabilities. Example, Discord just got a data breach including govt ids.
If singapore has companies needing to get users data to verify them and avoid cybercrime, wouldnt it be a risk of an even bigger data breach?
Adam, [23/10/2025 11:46 am]
It is good that the govt is aware of these problems, but we have to be cautious that we implement the right solutions, and companies and people will not use this fear as a platform to push something questionable
365, [23/10/2025 12:08 pm]
Singapore as a country is too small to compel big companies into doing what we want, if what we want isn't common practice. This is because they can easily give up the Singapore market without losing much. International collaboration will be key, agreeing upon a common set of standards with regards to cybersecurity and a safe digital space.
Foreign companies can't give up on a large collective market. Thus, it is not enough for Singapore to only focus internally, but to also convince others to come together and collaborate to improve the safety of the digital space.
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 2:03 pm]
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REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 2:38 pm]
Dear Contributors,
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๐ฌ What are your views on Singapore’s efforts in defending Singapore’s cyberspace? What more can be done locally and internationally?
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Megan ๐
LCL (Danny ๅฟ), [23/10/2025 3:20 pm]
1. This round, I think the attempted cybersecurity breach by the organised hacker UNC3886 against Singapore CII (Critical Information Infrastructure) is very serious - that if the breach if pervasive - will be very destructive.
2. In order to discuss the severity of this attempted attack, we need to understand what is CII (Critical Information Infrastructure).
3. CII is infrastructure that cut across the full spectrum of our Economy - for if any of the CII is bring down, a pillar foundation of our Economy will be brought down.
4. So what is CII - they are information (IT) infrastructure supporting our Economic pillars like Power Energy, Electricity, Water, Gas, Sea ports, Air ports, Telecommunications, Satellites, Banking, Manufacturing, Business Industry sectors, Healthcare, Education - Universities R&D, IHLs, schools, Government Services, Defence, Home security etc.
5. To imagine the effect of the breach of CIIs, I will urge people to watch the movie DieHard 4 - how State hackers cyberattack the CII and bring the entire Country into a war-torn like scenarios.
The scenarios is very real - if organised hackers are able to launch such massive cyberattack on CIIs - it is akin to a paralysed state likend to a devastating war - without firing a shot.
The Country Economy will collapse and the physical harm will be war-like - imagine a Country has no electricity, no water, no banking, soldiers and police cannot be activated due to no communication, no internet, no emergency call, hospital all life supporting functions not working etc.
Cyberhackers even able to break through the police comms and air force comms to redirect police and a fighter plane to attack security personnels.
6. Hence I understand our Government approach in safeguarding our CIIs against such cyberattack.
7. It is as devastating as bombing, shooting in a real physical war.
LCL (Danny ๅฟ), [23/10/2025 3:35 pm]
1. It is very wise for our Government approach to :-
a. Enmass the collective cybersecurity expertise of all the Government services, Home security and Military cyber experts.
b. Joint effort to tap the private sectors cybersecurity expertise e.g. GIC cybersecurity professionals, local private sector cybersecurity companies - developers, system integrators, operators etc.
c. Local R&D Agencies, Universities, IHLs in cybersecurity expertise
d. Foreign private sectors cybersecurity companies such as MNCs, startups and R&D companies
e. Collaboration with overseas Countries to jointly tackle cyberattackers - identify, exchange intelligence, curb and make arrest.
Because cyberattack can start anywhere in the Internet, jump hosts, hide their identity through encryption, tunneling, use bots and launch attack hiding behind foreign firewalls, VPNs and other security devices - making it very difficult to identify, trace, stop and make arrest - without the cooperation of various Countries telecoms, networks, systems, AI and cybersecurity expertise.
LCL (Danny ๅฟ), [23/10/2025 3:46 pm]
1. Eg. cyber hackers can do surveillance using many approach and tools available to do ICMP pings, TCP scan, SNMP scan etc --- to map out network topology to probe all the IT devices.
2. Look for vulnerable IT devices to breach such as poor password used, default pasword used - that can be easily crack by hacking tools - take over the admin password of the devices and act as bots to launch cyberattack hiding behind firewalls, VPNs to hide their identities. Jump from one host to another all over the world using encrypted method like SSL, SSH, VPN etc that hide their identities, using masquerade admin id, password, mask IP address etc.
LCL (Danny ๅฟ), [23/10/2025 3:55 pm]
1. Incidentally, designing the underlying network and system infrastructure and protecting our 11 to 13 CIIs can scale up to more (together with my security colleagues) is my last project for the Government, and I can attest to the values of the above approach to protect our CIIs against cybersecurity attacks from organised cyber hackers by orgainsed hackers or state hackers.
2. My experience with more than a decade with the Government, and close to a decade experience with the defence contractor GLC reveals the valuable multiple layered ring defence approach in building protective defence against state like cyber attack like 24 hours proactive monitoring of cyber attacks and breaches, penetration test for vulnerabilities, digital forensices, sandbox against APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) malware, spyware etc.
3. Based on what I read from the news, our cybersecurity defence are holding up well and no major security breaches are reported.
4. We need to work with everyone - locals and foreign cybersecurity experts, professionals and Government to make cyber defence effective - including adhoc white hackers - local and foreign.
We are squaring with the best cyberhackers in the World - hence we need to enrope the best cyber defenders in the World to protect against the World best hackers.
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 4:01 pm]
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LCL (Danny ๅฟ), [23/10/2025 4:28 pm]
1. Having done with building protecting against our physical infrastructure CIIs (Form) (่ฒ) from cyberattack against our Economic pillars - that can cripple our Country's Economy and bring us untold miseries.
2. My another mission is to protect ourselves (and in fact the World) against mental ideologies that are splitting human mankind (Formless) (็ฉบ) - which bring many wars - religious war - and currently the Gaza war.
In fact, we need to constantly keep our various religious groups and faiths in harmony to prevent cracks and fissures from happening time to time.
Disharmony still can happen like the Gaza war that disturb our various communities in social integration.
Hence to solve this once and for all, only "Unifying all the Religions" will be the best approach.
Now a golden opportunity window has opened - and is time to latch in to it.
3. The advanced knowledge bring about by Quantum Computing, AI and Internet (Digital Infrastructure) has revealed more intricate knowledge of Quantum Mechanics Physics (Quantum Qubits superposition states, quantum tunneling, quantum entanglement), Einstein Spooky Action at a distance, Law of Relativity - in which quantum experiment, labs with the aid of quantum computing have unravel the physics beyond classical physics :-
a. Time driven Samsara Universe Platform
b. Timeless Quantum Platform (where past, present, future) - coexist together in Quantum Void Emptiness.
(Form = Emptiness, Emptiness = Form) (่ฒ = ็ฉบ，็ฉบ = ่ฒ）
4. And physics scientists all over the World have finally able to produce a Unifying Physics model and Math Equation - that can explain how Universe can be created through Science and Math by unifying - classical physics + quantum physics + Einstein Law of Relativity.
5. In fact, a "Baby Universe" has been created by scientists - LHC Collider and other labs - a Universe within a Universe - Multiverse, Parallel Universe is possible.
6. Hence, this now pose the best chance of "Unifying All the Religions Together" - in which the Unifying Physics Model - can effectively explain How Universe is Created and How Life is formed.
7. Hopefully, starting with Singapore (hopefully the World catch on later), our various Religions can finally reconcile with one another - that all the various Religions are talking about the same thing (like all blind folded man touching various part of a Big Elephant - some touch the leg, some touch the trunk, some touch the tusk, some touch the body - and each come out with the interpretation of what Elephant look like).
When put everything together, we finally able to see the full complete picture of an Elephant.
8. The following URL links will be useful to understand these.
Unifying Physics Model and Math Equation - that create the Universe. And how Life evolve.
https://babe118.blogspot.com/2025/10/unifying-physics-model-how-universe-is.html
Spiritual awakening is within you.
Not external.
The solution to Israel and Gaza war.
The solution to World religions peace.
https://babe118.blogspot.com/2025/10/spiritual-awakening-is-within-you.html?m=1
9. To summarise, cyber defence should be 2 fold :-
a. Physical (Form) (่ฒ) - Protection of CII - Cyber Defence
b. Mental (Ideology) (Formless) (็ฉบ) - Unifying Physics Model + Mental Model (Spiritual Awakening is within you) - explained by Quantum Physics - Time versus Timeless Quantum Platform.
Only then, we can achieve truly World Peace - Physical + Mental.
Xtra, [23/10/2025 5:06 pm]
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/fatal-abuse-of-megan-khung-a-year-of-missed-opportunities-to-save-her-life
This case of abuse is truly tragic, wonder how such things can still happen in this day..
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 6:02 pm]
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Berry R, [23/10/2025 6:17 pm]
It is good to see a thorough review with the agencies named but hopefully got stronger mgmt of such cases esp if involving children!!! Heartbreaking ๐
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 6:45 pm]
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Megan ๐
REACH Singapore, [23/10/2025 7:00 pm]
Dear Contributors
We will be closing the chat for today.
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