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N. Korean gov''t behind July cyber attacks -- Seoul spy chief |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 18:07 |
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Seoul's intelligence agency has named North Korea's telecommunications ministry as the origin of a series of cyber attacks in July
on scores of state and private Web sites in South Korea and the US, local media reported Friday, citing lawmakers. "Our search into the route of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on South Korean and US sites found a line coming from China," the National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief Won Sei-hoon said in a closed-door meeting of the National Assembly intelligence committee in Seoul on Thursday, according to Yonhap News Agency. "The line was found to be on the IP that the North Korean Ministry of Post and Telecommunications is using on rent (from China)," he said. His remarks were quoted by committee lawmakers who attended the meeting. The NIS had initially assumed North Korea was the likely cause of the DDoS attacks that affected 26 targets, including the Web sites of the presidential offices in Seoul and Washington. But the latest comments mark the first time the agency has named a specific organ as the user of the Internet protocol (IP) address linked to the attacks. No significant damage was reported from the July attacks, though investigators failed to determine who was behind them, the report said. - Kuna
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