Day 3 of Korean DDoS attacks
2009/07/10 16:19The distributed denial of service (DDoS) continued today with some speculation that the infected computers may soon risk losing data on their hard drives:
Yet, even if the assaults were to be completely blocked tomorrow, the attackers could still have one last, inglorious weapon in their arsenal: New evidence suggests that the malicious code responsible for spreading this attack includes instructions to overwrite the infected PC's hard drive.
Meanwhile, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) decided to cut off Internet access for users with infected computers to try to mitigate the attacks.
Korean financial institutions put their new anti-DDoS systems to the test with the recent attacks:
In fact, local banks established last August a joint monitoring system for possible DDoS attacks and also set up the new blocking system in January this year. Nonghyup - the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation - managed to ward off the latest attacks with the help of the new systems, although it initially did not join the joint efforts back in August.
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