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South Korean financial firms are facing a wave of cyberattacks, with Bithumb, Mirae Asset Global Investments, and Daishin Securities confirmed as the latest victims, according to Yonhap and the Korea Times. The Financial Supervisory Service discovered the breaches, which are part of a broader trend of AI agent-driven attacks and data breaches across the financial sector, prompting major banks to plan bigger cybersecurity budgets for 2027. Korean Air and Asiana Airlines also suffered a data breach, highlighting vulnerabilities in third-party IT providers. Korean media and officials are expressing concern over the structural weaknesses in cybersecurity, with the finance ministry hosting a G20 conference on financial stability in the AI era to address these issues.