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While multiple attacks were organized by multiple perpetrators, one of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the South Korean government websites were directly linked to the “DarkSeoul” gang and Trojan.Castov. [11] Malware related to the attack is called "DarkSeoul" in the computer world and was first identified in 2012 ...
The earliest known attack that the group is responsible for is known as "Operation Troy", which took place from 2009 to 2012. This was a cyber-espionage campaign that utilized unsophisticated distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) techniques to target the South Korean government in Seoul.
Cyber security expert Kurt Stammberger from cyber security firm Norse, [93] [94] DEFCON organizer and Cloudflare researcher Marc Rogers, [95] Hector Monsegur, [96] and Kim Zetter, a security journalist at Wired magazine, [97] have expressed doubt and tended to agree that North Korea might not be behind the attack.
Major North Korean hacking groups have mounted "all-out" cyber attacks against South Korean defence companies for more than a year, breaching the firms' internal networks and stealing technical ...
South Korea and the United States kicked off annual summertime military exercises on Monday, seeking to boost their joint readiness to fend off North Korea's weapons and cyber threats. The Ulchi ...
South Korea and the United States will begin annual summertime military drills next week to ramp up their capability to counter North Korea's weapons and cyber threats, officials said on Monday.
The activities of the agency came to public attention in December 2014 when Sony Pictures canceled the opening of its movie The Interview after its computers had been hacked. [12] [13] Bureau 121 has been blamed for the cyber breach, but North Korea has rejected this accusation. [14] Much of the agency's activity has been directed at South Korea.
The National Cyber Security Centre said it showed how far Pyongyang was willing to go to pursue its military and nuclear programmes. North Korea-backed cyber group sought to steal nuclear secrets ...