Korean-American network attacks from the United Kingdom or another master server

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Network attack bit network server
Tags address american network analysis beginning bit network broadcasting communications computer
Bit network (chinabyte) July 14, according to the North Korea Day report, the results of an analysis of the South Korea and the United States at the beginning of the July distributed Denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) from computers in the United Kingdom. According to an analysis, the distributed Denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) on the main websites of South Korea and the United States, such as the green tile platform, are from computers in the UK, the report said. That is, although you do not know who the operator is, you can confirm that the attack was initiated by using a master server with a British IP address. The South Korean Broadcasting and Communications Commission said yesterday: "Bkis, a computer security enterprise in Vietnam, briefed the South Korean Institute for Information Protection (KISA) on the results of a vicious program analysis, ' the host server for the attack is in the UK '.  "The report also said that Kisa after the start of the DDoS attack, the malicious program samples sent to 16 countries 22 members of the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Alliance Organization (Apcert) of the country, one of the members of the Vietnamese enterprises to make a careful analysis of this results. The report quoted the South Korean Broadcasting and Communications Commission as saying that the information had been forwarded to the National Intelligence Service and prosecutors and the police, and that the international cooperation system should be launched to investigate together.  It is reported that the British authorities have been notified by the ROK, is currently using the IP address of the server to investigate. The report cites Kisa speculated that using Windows 2003 as the operating system's master server spreads malicious programs around 125 host sites worldwide. As a result, 166,000 PCs (PCs) in 74 countries, including South Korea, the US, China, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and the UK, are infected with malicious programs.  Among them, the South Korean zombie computer up to more than 78,000 units. According to the report, Huangtiezhen, director of the Network Policy Bureau of the South Korean Broadcasting and Communications Commission, said: "It may be that the British server has been remotely manipulated after hacking, or there is another master server." "Related reports:" Chinabyte July 14 News, according to Yonhap reported that the South Korean Broadcasting communication Committee said that from the beginning of 7th this month, the DDoS (distributed denial of service) network attacks, 3 times in the evening of 9th online attacks, 10th end.  South Korea's presidential green tile Taiwan, the National Intelligence Institute and other government agencies and the Angelian Institute, such as the first attack of the DDoS; the online auction market "Auction" website and one of South Korea's largest portal site "Naver" site and the major banks of the site suffered a second attack on the paralysis. In addition, DDoS to Korean netizens also bring great inconvenience and psychological fear.  Up to now, a total of 424 reported personal computers were infected by a DDoS attack. In the aftermath of the DDoS attacks, the South Korean Ministry of Planning and Finance decided 12th to build the "financial and Economic Network Security Center" planned early next year.

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