Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters
Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters
crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South
Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and
banks.
least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu
banks reported that their computer networks had been crached. The
state-run Korea Information Security Agency said that Screens went blank
at 2 p.m. and more than seven hours later some systems were still
down.
The take down was apparently not from a distributed denial-of-service
(DDOS) attack, but a virus that has apparently infected machines in
these organizations and delivered its payload simultaneously.
An official at the Korea Communications Commission said investigators
speculate that malicious code was spread from company servers that send
automatic updates of security software and virus patches.
The Associated Press says:
"The latest network paralysis took place just days after North Korea
accused South Korea and the U.S. of staging a cyber attack that shut
down its websites for two days last week. Loxley Pacific, the
Thailand-based Internet service provider, confirmed the North Korean
outage but did not say what caused it.
"The South Korean shutdown did not affect government agencies or
potential targets such as power plants or transportation systems, and
there were no immediate reports that bank customers' records were
compromised, but the disruption froze part of the country's commerce."
The Korea Internet Security Agency, a state watchdog, said it had
recorded 40,000 cases of cyber attacks from foreign and domestic sources
in 2012, up sharply from 24,000 in 2008.
Some banking services, such as ATM and online banking, were adversely
affected by the shutdowns, though the banks are reporting that those
services have been restored.
South Korean President Park Geun Hye has put together a cyber security team to look into whether North Korea is the culprit behind today’s attacks.
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