Uppsala Security and NSHC sign a MoU on Technology Partnership and Business Cooperation
Singapore, 21 May 2020 — Uppsala Security, a blockchain based cybersecurity company, officially announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NSHC, a company specialized in Dark Web cybersecurity. The goal of the technology and business cooperation is to jointly develop technologies that will enable government agencies in the future to track and investigate cybercrime such as the “Nth room” case and the Dark Web.
The agreement also included the signing of a NDA and the cooperation between NSHC, specialized in Dark Web security technologies, and Uppsala Security, which built and operates an award winning suite of advanced tracking and risk management solutions, will lead to the development of joint technologies designed for cybercrime tracking and investigation.
According to the “2019 Cyber Threat Analysis Report” published by the Korean National Police Agency, a total of 180,499 cybercrime cases were committed last year, and it has increased up to 20.7 percent compared to the previous year’s 149,604 rate. Among them, 24,945 cases (13.8 percent out of it) were crimes such as the production and distribution of sexual abuse materials related to the “Nth room” case. As crime methods are also becoming increasingly creative and sophisticated, cybercrime investigations also need new and innovative approaches to strengthen their responsiveness.
In the case of NSHC, the Dark Web Intelligence platform “DarkTracer” has tens of billions of dark web data accumulated since 2016 (as of May 2020–780,000 Dark Web Onion sites and 8.7 billion analyzed intelligence information). NSHC has a solution that coordinates and analyzes accumulated Dark Web intelligence data with newly collected criminal evidence to help identify criminals and support law enforcement in the investigation process.
Uppsala Security constantly accumulates Threat Intelligence in its blockchain based data hub, including blacklisted virtual asset wallet addresses associated with fraud, hacking, scamming or Money Laundering and is characterized by its ability to proactively identify and track malicious activity, based on its own Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms. Uppsala Security is utilizing its own Crypto Analysis Transaction Visualization (CATV) and Crypto Analysis Risk Assessment (CARA) tools to continuously track funds for digital currency-related incidents such as exchange hacking, Ponzi schemes, multi-stage fraud and cases similar to the „Nth room”.
Louise Hur, CEO of NSHC, said, “We expect that through the partnership with Uppsala Security, the two companies will successfully track and analyze cybercrime in a three-dimensional manner. Uppsala Security owns a pioneering technology that can identify and track illegal transactions of virtual currencies based on its own Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms. We entrust that the joint work of the two companies will achieve great results in the global cybersecurity market.”
Patrick Kim, CEO of Uppsala Security, said, “We are pleased to sign a business agreement with NSHC, one of the few strong players in the global Dark Web security field. Key technology partnerships between the two companies can enable more effective detection and tracking activities for cybercrime such as drug trafficking on the Dark Web, digital sex crimes and virtual assets extortion and laundering. We hope to provide digital crime tracking technology to government agencies in the future so that we can make progress in our increasingly sophisticated digital crime investigations.“.
About NSHC
NSHC was founded as a security consulting company by a team of white hat hackers in 2003. Since then, the company has expanded businesses from security solutions to security information consulting in the last 10+ years. Based on the best technology, NSHC supplied about 180 domestic smartphone app security solutions and is currently providing security services throughout Asia, including Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia.
About Uppsala Security Pte Ltd
Uppsala Security built and operates the world’s first crowdsourced Threat Intelligence Platform known as the Sentinel Protocol, powered by blockchain technology and A.I. Supporting the framework is a team of experienced security analysts and researchers committed to helping organizations realize safely interconnected experiences by deploying a suite of advanced Risk Management Solutions satisfying the crypto security needs of organizations and industry compliance standards worldwide.
Uppsala Security is headquartered in Singapore and has branch offices in Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan. Follow Uppsala Security on Telegram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Medium.
