N.Korean DDoS attacks hit S.Korea and US

[HEAT]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/...a_cyber_attack

Most major websites are down in SK.
Online banking, government websites, search engine portals, online shops, college websites... all down!!
2nd attack has began about 2 hours ago. and some U.S. government websites are under attack now.

They infected 22,000 PCs in all around the world and mobilizing those zombie computers to attack 2 countries.

[Arnjen]

Holy mozes didnt knew N Korea was THAT corrupt and evil do you know why they doing it ?

[Rangermoore]

Obama will just apologize and say it is our fault and that its a new America and we just want to be your friends...

[San]

They have Internets in North Korea?

[IllTestYourGirls]

Just the thing the US needs to use as propaganda to give reason to take control of all the internet connections.

[Rochard]

This is going to be the new form of warfare. Instead of killing people, one country will bring another country to it's knees by killing the Interweb.

[Spudstr]

Originally Posted by Rochard

This is going to be the new form of warfare. Instead of killing people, one country will bring another country to it's knees by killing the Interweb.

There is a real easy way to fix this whole cyber war. Whoever provides the pipes into the country can easily control the size/amount of data to/from them.

Now if they start hacking/creating botnets etc thats a whole different story.

[seeandsee]

Originally Posted by HEAT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/...a_cyber_attack

Most major websites are down in SK.
Online banking, government websites, search engine portals, online shops, college websites... all down!!
2nd attack has began about 2 hours ago. and some U.S. government websites are under attack now.

They infected 22,000 PCs in all around the world and mobilizing those zombie computers to attack 2 countries.

Earlier Wednesday, the NIS said in a statement that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 computers overseas had been infected and used for the cyber attack.

[pornguy]

Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls

Just the thing the US needs to use as propaganda to give reason to take control of all the internet connections.

Makes you wonder who could actually be behind it.. Not the first time the Gubment has done something to get what they want.

[TheDoc]

Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls

Just the thing the US needs to use as propaganda to give reason to take control of all the internet connections.

Does that mean the other 100000000's of attacks, hacks, etc on every single Gov/Military US website, wasn't enough but this being from NK puts it over the top?

[Carmine Raguso]

I am guessing MY ISP (RoadRunner) must be under attack, because my down and up is really shitty. Wondering if my PC is one of the "zombie cases" because my up is like .60 MBPS

[asianseekerz]

wow the last time i go in N. Korea they dont have internet so now how can they do that to attck all websites of us and S. korea....

[IllTestYourGirls]

Originally Posted by TheDoc

Does that mean the other 100000000's of attacks, hacks, etc on every single Gov/Military US website, wasn't enough but this being from NK puts it over the top?

Yes. Now they have an specific enemy they can point at and say "we must have control of ALL internet connections because N.K. is trying to attack us."

Wont it be great when another religious nutjob gets into office and has control over the internet connections. Should be good for the porn business .

[TheDoc]

Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls

Yes. Now they have an specific enemy they can point at and say "we must have control of ALL internet connections because N.K. is trying to attack us."

Wont it be great when another religious nutjob gets into office and has control over the internet connections. Should be good for the porn business .

NK has done this before, China has hacked into US Gov Computers... this isn't new.


Looks like the porn industry has 7.5 years before they have to worry about that...

[IllTestYourGirls]

Originally Posted by TheDoc

NK has done this before, China has hacked into US Gov Computers... this isn't new.


Looks like the porn industry has 7.5 years before they have to worry about that...

I know its nothing new. Im not trying to say it is.

[DWB]

BS. I'm blaming it on Russians.

[Sly]

South Korea has far greater patience with North Korea than I would ever be able to have. I can't imagine how nervous/frustrated they are.

[Fletch XXX]

i forgot what book i read that saifd the next war will be fought with computers more than guns.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Rochard

This is going to be the new form of warfare. Instead of killing people, one country will bring another country to it's knees by killing the Interweb.

Yes mass amounts of teenagers will all kill themselves because they can't twitter or go on facebook.

Seriously though, I wonder if something like this could be looked on as an act of war or state sponsored terrorism? I would imagine the UN will write NK a letter or two over this, hell the Russians and Chinese might even say naughty, naughty..

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by Rochard

This is going to be the new form of warfare.

I cannot recall the book I read, but this idea is not new. Predictions of computer based warfare have been around for a long time, its the new smallpox blankets we can use against our enemies. Ive read quite a few books about tech based war theories, just cant place the title right now... if you havent read books about this, you should.

[96ukssob]

Originally Posted by pornguy

Makes you wonder who could actually be behind it..

RUSSIA!

i was trying to find that image of a light switch that said "turn off the internet for Russia"

just my

[HEAT]

Originally Posted by asianseekerz

wow the last time i go in N. Korea they dont have internet so now how can they do that to attck all websites of us and S. korea....

They have internet. they also run a cyber warfare unit that targets military computer networks in South Korea and the U.S.

In this case, they're using N. Korean spies in SK and China to distribute rogue softwares that operate DDoS attack.
from this activity, thousands of computers around the globe were infected with rogue software that told them to repeatedly attempt to access the targeted sites, a tactic aimed at driving up traffic beyond the sites' normal capacity and denying access to legitimate user.

So far, approximately 23,000 ~ 28,000 coumputers are infected and mobilized to attack websites in both countries.

I guess this attack is retaliation for UN resolution 1874 which is banning NK's weapons export.

[bbm]

very good

[JenniDahling]

We just need a few phenomenal hackers to get into the N Korean government's backend and just blast non stop porn throughout the entire country especially since you know they don't let kids have access to the internet. Bet you that will bring a whole new type of revolution

[V_RocKs]

THey are so ahead of the times.

[DaddyHalbucks]

The NK govt --what a bunch of psychos.

[GetSCORECash]

Amateurs to Blame for DDoS Attacks

Nothing to do with North Korea

In an interview with Ziff-Davis Enterprise Contributing Editor Steve Kovsky, Sourcefire Director of Vulnerability Research Matt Watchinski cites evidence of poorly written code, low bandwidth, and a general lack of sophistication as indications that the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that disrupted U.S. government and private sector Websites over the Fourth of July holiday weekend were perpetrated by amateurs and not the North Korean government. Watchinski, who heads up the Vulnerability Research Team at Sourcefire, purveyor of the open-source intrusion detection engine Snort, says that if the attacks had been a state-sponsored act of cyberwarfare, "I would expect far more sophistication in the tools and the amount of data they could actually generate."

[IllTestYourGirls]

Originally Posted by SCORE-Cash

Amateurs to Blame for DDoS Attacks

Nothing to do with North Korea

Yeah but amateurs dont scare the American people as much as N.K.