Cyber Attacks Cripple Major Websites in South Korea

July 8, 2009

The New York Times

An army of "zombie computers" infected by a hackers’ program paralyzed major government, bank and newspaper websites in South Korea in cyber attacks that officials here said on Wednesday were apparently linked to similar attacks in the United States.

Access to 25 Web sites — including those of the presidential Blue House, the Defense Ministry, the National Assembly, Shinhan Bank, the mass-circulation daily newspaper Chosun and the top Internet portal Naver.com — have crashed or slowed down to a crawl since Tuesday evening, officials at the government’s Korea Information Security Agency said.

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