Korean and American websites victim to DDoS attacks
Posted on futurizekorea.com
Major government, media and corporate websites in both South Korea and the United States were brought down by a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
In Korea, the attack targeted a wide range of sites:
After 6 p.m. on Tuesday, major Korean websites including Chosun.com, Cheong Wa Dae, the National Assembly, the Defense Ministry, Naver’s e-mail and blog services, Auction, and Shinhan and Korea Exchange banks were impossible to connect to or became extremely slow.
While in the US, the DDoS attack included the White House, State Department, Homeland Security and Defense, New York Stock Exchange and the Washington Post.
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The Korea Internet Security Center (KISC) raised their Internet Security Warning Level to Yellow/Substantial as shown on their homepage:
