South Korea will unify the certification system that assesses reliability and stability when private cloud providers serve public institutions into a single verification framework aligned with the National Intelligence Service’s N2SF from the second half of 2027. The Ministry of Science and ICT’s CSAP will be abolished and integrated into N2SF. The overhaul is expected to lower entry hurdles for certification and expand room for global cloud firms in the public sector.

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a new variable in talks on moving Bitcoin to quantum-resistant security, after an Anthropic frontier AI model found a new way to attack a weakened version of AES. Anthropic said the AI-made method sped up cracking by 200 to 1,000 times and also devised an improved attack on the post-quantum signature scheme HAWK. Researchers and industry figures say the work does not pose an immediate threat but highlights the need to assess AI-driven cryptanalysis alongside quantum risks.