“If this request fails, the banking website will deny entry and ask that you install IPinside LWS Agent first. So in South Korea running this application isn’t optional.”
Korean banks require an agent that hands over drive serials, MAC addresses, local IPs and a searchable process list to any website that asks. Its “encryption” is worthless. It runs its own homemade web server on OpenSSL 1.0.1j, a version past end of support for six years, with no ASLR or DEP. Palant sent three vulnerability reports to KrCERT in October and heard nothing after November. A fraud-prevention mandate turned into a deanonymization tool installed on millions of PCs.