South Korean TV and banks paralysed in disk-wipe cyber-blitz Banks and TV stations in South Korea have been hit by a debilitating attack on their computer networks. Three financial institutions - Shinhan, Nonghyup and Jeju - and two insurance firms as well as broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN have either been partially or completely crippled by malware, it appears, according to South Korean …
"However some important websites, including KCNA and Air Koryo, were rendered temporarily inaccessible."
They're North Korean websites. They were down last week when NK had it's own internet problems (Kim Jong-Un unplugged the router power supply to charge his HTC phone)
Apparently NBC are, too. Maybe they get their news from FOX.
BBC concurred with El Reg three hours ago, so more likely FOX are making shit up as usual instead unless SK really think the NK's did it over the last three hours' investigating. Which would seem extremely fast.
Paris, cos she & FOX operate on the same level.
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Korea's networks have always been a mess of infected machines and botnets. My bet is that a few C&C servers for those bots were hacked and provided with self-destruct code; all the dead machines were bots. If so, thumbs up to whoever did it. My firewall logs just got a lot shorter.
Serves them right for using Microsoft products.
A bit surprised more of this has not happened sooner. Then again smart parasites know not to kill their host. Stupid parasites kill their host and lose their home + life. That is the best argument I know supporting North Korea as the culprit. Not smart enough to know better than to make their presence known.
When I was in South Korea in 2005 you couldn't re-install XP and get it updated fast enough to prevent the new install from being infected. You had to use an external firewall or install the patches offline. If I remember it right, it took 30 seconds of being on the internet unprotected to get infected.
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