South Korea's military improves intelligence and defense against hacker attacks

    local time yesterday around two o'clock in the afternoon, South Korea's KBS radio station, the Korean Culture Broadcasting Company (MBC) and 24-hour television news channel YTN and other television networks were attacked by hackers, the New South Korea Bank, association and other financial companies, such as the computer network also appeared to be completely paralyzed, People's normal lives and work are affected. Such a large area of cyber-paralysis in South Korea is the first time, the same day the South Korean military will be the level of intelligence-fighting defense raised a level.      March 20 around two o'clock in the afternoon, South Korea's KBS TV writer South Dawn is about to put into the afternoon work, suddenly computer black screen, initially thought that their computer out of the question, restart also does not work, and then learned that colleagues computer all appear the same situation, It was realized that the company's computer was attacked by hackers, paralyzed all.      South Dawn: Like our KBS, we contributors ah, announcer Ah, we (now) write their own manuscript should be placed in an email, our KBS email, after the attack, now can not find (original information), So they give us a new email address, we all have to go there, the previous (information) they want to rebuild it will take time to find it back and recover.      There are more than one in KBS, the same day, the Korean cultural Broadcasting Company said, although the TV program can be aired normally, but the computer network paralysis. 24-hour TV news channel YTN, the official said, not only is the office computer network, TV program editing equipment also appears to panic.      South Dawn: According to the television sources said that afternoon, the internal network all paralyzed, the computer can not access the Internet, and even recorded some of the programs stored in the destruction. In the      banking sector, South Korea's two largest banks, the new South Korean bank and the agricultural co-banking sector were affected. The ATM teller machine at the new Korea Bank has also stopped serving.      South Dawn: Several banks have seen the paralysis of banking window business, the inability of ATMs to withdraw money, and the inability of online banks to use such accidents.      Korea Agricultural Cooperation Bank is the largest banking network in Korea. The Association bank's leadership has suspected that its network paralysis is caused by hackers. South Dawn also pointed out that in South Korea, the financial network has been attacked in recent years is not new, but the radio was attacked for the first time.      South Dawn: The event that the network of financial institutions was attacked has often occurred in recent years. Last year, there was an attack on the Web site of the main newspaper media, the first time that the network of major television stations had been attacked, while the website of several major communications companies in South Korea had EnronSafe。      A Korean Internet service provider LG Uplus users can see a page that shows the network was attacked by an alleged "who's team" hacker. The hacker left three skulls on the page and warned that this was the beginning of "our actions".      The current network of central and local government agencies in Korea is functioning normally. South Korea's government has begun to investigate the reasons, the South Korean military to the intelligence operations of the defense level has been raised level.      South Dawn: In view of this situation, South Korean police believe that this attack is from a specific organization of the possibility of great. At present, South Korean police put the focus of the investigation on the possibility of cyber-terrorism, and began to conduct an urgent investigation, the South Korean military said the intelligence combat defense level up one level. At the same time, the government announced that, in view of the media and financial institutions of the network paralysis from the possibility of external hacker attacks, the issue of online crisis alert, the government convened the radio and Television Communications Commission, the Administrative Security Department, the Ministry of Defence, the national intelligence agencies, such as the main heads of 10 departments Investigate the cause of the incident, and organized the Network Crisis Response Center, at any time to respond to developments.      Overnight, a new working day has begun, so now are these TV stations and the banks of the computer have been back to normal? Connect "People's daily" in South Korea reporter Mafi.      Reporter: Since 2 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, South Korea's main television stations and financial institutions have been a comprehensive paralysis, the specific symptoms of paralysis are the computer suddenly crash can not be restarted, KBS Headquarters building access control system can not be used. However, because the television program broadcast uses the independent network system, therefore the television station did not have the broadcast interruption accident. But the internal computer system is in a state of interruption, so the program is in danger of being unable to update it. The people in the station are taking all the measures, even using Internet cafes and cell phone messages to send back the report, the financial institutions of the network yesterday afternoon back to normal, but the television network last night was still paralyzed, this morning I was again clicked on the KBS official website, is still in a state of not open.      The government of South Korea has set up a joint investigation team, which initially analyzed the malicious code implanted in the computer that destroyed the system's master boot Record, which was the result of the network paralysis caused by the MBR. The South Korean Broadcasting and Communications Commission said at its second press conference yesterday that the malicious code was aired from an enterprise upgrade management system, but did not disclose the exact location of the transmission. The team said they found two strings recurring in the destroyed master boot record, in Latin where the two strings were the first column of the Corps and the first meaning, so there is a possibility of another round of attacks.