The decision to identify cyber threat group UNC3886 was because Singaporeans “ought to know about it” given the seriousness of the threat, said the minister.
Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam and Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo speaking to the media during a media doorstop interview at Exercise Cyber Star in Singapore Institute of Technology on Aug 1, 2025.
Mr Shanmugam had announced on Jul 18 that Singapore is actively dealing with a"highly sophisticated threat actor" that is attacking critical infrastructure, identifying the entity as UNC3886 without disclosing if it was a state-linked actor. On Friday, Mr Shanmugam also gave his reasons for disclosing the identity of threat actors like UNC3886.
“Here, we said this is serious. They have gotten in. They are compromising a very serious critical infrastructure. Singaporeans ought to know about it, and awareness has got to increase. And because of the seriousness, it is in the public interest for us to disclose,” said Mr Shanmugam. “There’re close to about 500 participants today. They come together, put a face to a name, exercise real life scenarios, things which have happened elsewhere,” said Mr Shanmugam, emphasising that such incidents are “not theoretical”.
“You have to exercise, you have to bring people together. Government has got a high level of knowledge.”“Now, they need their knowledge and abilities to also increase. So we've got to work together,” said Mr Shanmugam.
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