South Korea Strike By Cyber Attacks

South Korea has been strike by a array of cyber attacks that have targeted a few of the country's heading websites.

Government ministries, the National Assembly, the army headquarters, US Forces in Korea and major banks were amid those hit.

It is believed that the enemy injected malware in to two peer-to-peer file-sharing websites.

The attacks are identical to those that targeted South Korean websites in July 2009.

Some 29 institutions were affected by supposed distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that bog down a site with information causing it to drop over.

The web page of the Financial Services Commission, the country's financial regulator, was overloaded and an online batch trade network was close down for a few mins but both shortly recovered, according to supervision sources.

"There was a DDoS attack, but no damage was done," mentioned an authorized from the presidential office.

South Korean safety definite AhnLab approaching other call of attacks on Friday, targeting up to 40 supervision and corporate websites.

It estimates that up to 11,000 personal computers were putrescent by malware and recruited is to attack. It is distributing giveaway program to washed PCs.

The South Korean cyber scrutiny section has sent investigators to the two file-sharing sites that are believed to have expansion the rouge code, according to the National Police Agency.

The cyber attacks against South Korea in 2009 were blamed on North Korea, nonetheless no couple has been proven.

South Korean media outlets have, in the past, indicted North Korea of running an internet crusade section directed at hacking in to US and South Korean army networks.