Repeat of SKorea, US cyberattacks does no damage

“Hundreds of computers that caused a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no major damage was reported, police said Thursday.

More than 460 computers infected with malicious computer codes assaulted 25 websites, including that of South Korea’s presidential Blue House, on Wednesday as they are programmed to attack every July 7, said Jeong Seok-hwa, a police officer handling investigations on the cyberattacks.

‘But the attacks were so weak that there were no problems in accessing the sites,’ he said.

An analysis of an infected computer in Seoul showed that it was programmed to attack every July 7 and the malicious computer codes used were identical to those mobilized last year, said Hyun Jae-sub, another police official.

Hyun said the attacks are traced to computers which were not vaccinated after the last year’s attacks. He said about 270,000 infected computers were involved in last year’s assaults.”

(Source: The Associated Press: Repeat of SKorea, US cyberattacks does no damage)