Posted on 07/09/2009 8:36:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
South Korea's state intelligence organization said Friday it has discovered that a wave of cyber attacks carried out earlier this week into key government and private websites in South Korea and the United States was launched from computers in 16 countries, Yonhap News Agency reported. The National Intelligence Service made the report to a closed-door meeting with members of a parliamentary intelligence committee, Yonhap quoted committee members as saying.
North Korea was not among the 16 countries, which include South Korea, the United States, Japan, and Guatemala, Yonhap said.
The cyber attacks have been traced to 86 Internet Protocol addresses in the countries, intelligence officials reportedly told the committee.
As for North Korea's involvement in the attacks, the intelligence agency suspects the North, but it is too early to say with certainty because an investigation is still going on, the report said.
Its suspicion that North Korea or its sympathizers may be behind the attacks is based on the fact that the attacks targeted conservative groups, and that the North issued a statement warning of cyber warfare last month, and methods used by certain hackers.
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Very interesting. The next question is: how many college students were involved?
If they know those 86 IP addresses, then shut them down and find out who they are and deny them service.
Time for the FBI to do its job.
Any day now........................
And the NSA, CIA, the AF Cyber Command; etc.
And how many of the bots involved were running Linux?
Agreed.
China, informally, through students could also be involved, yes. My guess is zombie computers set up in various countries, but orignally orchestrated from Pyongyang.
“And how many of the bots involved were running Linux?”
Very few if any, I’d say. Linux is a very different environment than Windows. As just one example, there is no Windows Registry to hide things in.
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