South Korea says PCs could be hit next in web attack

Jon Herskovitz
Reuters
Friday, July 10, 2009

Cyber attacks slowing U.S. and South Korean websites could enter a new phase on Friday by attacking personal computers and wiping out hard disks, a South Korean government agency and web security firm said.

North Korea was originally a prime suspect for launching the cyber attacks, but the isolated state was not named on a list of five countries where the attacks may have originated, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said.

The attacks targeting dozens of government and business sites in South Korea and the United States did not cause major damage or security breaches, experts said, but the KCC warned a new phase at 4 p.m. British time on Friday could cause severe damage to PCs.

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Leading South Korean web security firm Ahnlab, which has closely examined the attacks, said the new phase would target data on tens of thousands of infected personal computers.

“The affected computers will not be able to boot and their storage files will be disabled,” said Lee Byung-cheol of Ahnlab.

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7 Responses to “South Korea says PCs could be hit next in web attack”

1. Chris G. Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 3:43 am

   So what, wipe out my hard drive… I need to do that anyway.

2. mike Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 6:44 am

   How much you wanna bet its a black ops…amerikan operation…duh..

3. truth911 Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 7:30 am

   im almost sure positive someone knows where the attacks came from and none of the above can be trusted especially our useless criminal government

4. evilbughead Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 7:47 am

   well this says it all:

   FIVE COUNTRIES NAMED

   The KCC said host websites believed behind the original attacks were based in Germany, Austria, Georgia, the United States and South Korea. The location of the hackers behind the attacks was still unknown, it said.

   Can you say “False Flag”, I said this days ago when this was first reported on. This is their event to bring in net censorship and Web 2.0. Better start learning how to connect to BBs thru your 56k modem , and if you don’t have a 56k modem go buy one if you can still find them.

   

   Matt Reply:
   July 10th, 2009 at 8:26 am

   How many people still have a land line phone though! Not many people I know.

5. asd Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 7:49 am

   So,. this is the new smoke and mirrors to Expedite the INETP act..

   sigh

6. A Patriot Says:
   July 10th, 2009 at 9:18 am

   For the love of mercy people don’t use Internet Explorer!