Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Cyber Attack on South Korea

South Korea suffered a full cyber attack--most likely perpetrated by North Korea:

Your hard drive will self-destruct at 2pm: Inside the South Korean cyberattack | Ars Technica: " . . . As we reported earlier, at about 2pm Seoul time, the networks of three broadcasters and three banks were affected by an attack that disrupted their networks, possibly caused by malware. But while malware was initially blamed for the outage, the malware that's been discovered thus far could not have taken networks down by itself. There was a lot more going on than just a malware attack; the convergence of multiple types of attacks suggests a coordinated effort by an organized attacker. The latest update from South Korean officials is that the attack emanated from a Chinese IP address. But the identity of the attackers is still unclear. . . " (read more at link above)


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