‘Mass text messaging operator certification system’ to be implemented this month

Restriction on Resending Spam Messages With Blacklisted Numbers…Introduction of Malicious Text Filtering for Samsung Phones,
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Key tasks for the second half of the year for KISA
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, ‘(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Jung-hyun = The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) announced on the 2nd that a qualification certification system for mass messaging operators will be implemented this month.’,
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, ‘The qualification certification system for mass messaging operators requires advertising text message reselling operators providing bulk messaging services over the internet to obtain transmission qualification certification from text message relay operators before starting the service in order to send promotional messages.’,
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, ‘Previously, the Korea Communications Commission established voluntary operation guidelines for the introduction of the system in March, and in April, mobile carriers and text message relay operators signed relevant agreements.’,
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, ‘Subsequently, the Communications Commission, KISA, mobile carriers, text message relay operators, the Korea Consumer Union of Popularization (KCUP), and relevant experts have been preparing for the implementation of the system.’,
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, ‘In the future, the Communications Commission and KISA will review and approve the transmission qualification certification examination results and deliberate on and decide on corrective measures and sanctions for violating operators.’,
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, ‘The three mobile carriers are responsible for managing and supervising text message relay operators, the nine text message relay operators are responsible for managing and supervising reselling operators and transmission qualification, and if the operating regulations are not adhered to, they are responsible for blocking transmission and terminating contracts. KCUP is responsible for monitoring illegal spam messages and notifying violations, as well as reporting on the status of the certification system operation.’,
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, ‘KISA Director Jung Won-ki held a press conference on the 30th and explained, “The ratio of spam messages to bulk messaging has increased by about 3% on average per half from 95.1% in the first half of 2022 to 95.8% in the second half of the same year, 97.3% in the first half of last year, and 97.9% in the second half of last year.” He also explained the reason for the introduction of the system, saying, “Recently, gambling, stock and investment inducement spams account for 59% of all spams and are on the rise, and spam messages sent from overseas are also increasing.”‘,
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, ‘KISA also announced that measures will be taken this month to restrict the retransmission of spam messages based on blacklisted sender numbers.’,
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, ‘Under this system, sender numbers reported as spam messages with more than 50 duplicates as of the 1st are designated as blacklisted, and the blocking period is for three months from the registration date.’,
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, ‘Director Jung stated, “Based on the results of the pilot operation conducted from August last year to April this year, a total of about 74,000 numbers have been registered as blacklisted and it is estimated that a total of 4.14 million spam messages were suppressed.”‘,
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KISA-Samsung collaboration for malicious text filtering service
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, “Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics is expected to introduce ‘malicious text filtering service’ on its mobile phones as early as the second half of this year, according to KISA.”,
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, ‘Through a partnership agreement, they have developed a feature that allows for an additional filtering of malicious texts on Samsung mobile phones based on spam reporting and analysis data from KISA. With this feature, malicious texts based on phone numbers and URLs will be automatically filtered out.’,
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, ‘The feature will be applied immediately to new devices, and for existing devices that can receive software updates, the function will also be applied, KISA explained.’,
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