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omonatheydidThe barrage of cyber attacks that targeted dozens of South Korean and U.S. Web sites took a new twist Friday as the malicious codes that broke into tens of thousands of local personal computers started wiping hard drives.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the nation's telecom regulator, said more than 350 computers were reported damaged as of Friday, but warned that the number could quickly rise since up to 50,000 have been contaminated by the latest wave of cyber attacks.
Leading virus vaccine provider AhnLab and the KCC said affected computers will not be able to boot up and their files saved on their hard disk drives will be destroyed.
"It is crucial that computer owners download vaccine programs as a protective measure, even if their computers haven't been infected," said Park Chul-soon, a KCC official, who downplayed the possibility of another round of intrusions following the three-day long attack.
Three dozen local Web sites, including those of Cheong Wa Dae, the National Assembly, the Ministry of National Defense, leading online shopping mall Auction, and top Internet portals Daum and Naver, as well as Kookmin, Shinhan and Korea Exchange banks, have been knocked out by hackers, who have yet to be identified.
The country's spy agency said Friday attackers used IP addresses from 19 countries amid suspicions that North Korea had orchestrated the cyber outages. However, the culprit hasn't been pinpointed.
The first and second series of attacks hit 11 and 15 local sites, respectively, on Tuesday and Wednesday. But the third, on a much smaller scale, tampered with just seven sites Thursday evening.
The KCC said the multi-pronged hacking has significantly slowed down with no new break-in attempts on Friday.
"We're not spotting renewed suspicious signs yet, but we're still in emergency mode to counteract possible attacks," said Park.
The state-run Korea Information Security Agency said it has pinpointed host Web sites based in Austria, Germany, the United States, Georgia and South Korea, so blocking future attempts from identified sites will help prevent additional attacks.
Meanwhile, the KCC urged owners of all virus-infected computers to pay immediate attention to cleaning up their operating systems.
The latest data show that more users are logging online to download vaccine programs, but still a large number of virus-infected computer owners who've been contacted by Internet operators have failed to take proper measures.
As an emergency measure to prop up disabled online networks, the KCC ordered the nation's Internet service providers KT, SK Broadband and LG Dacom to deny access to contaminated computers until users clean up their operating systems.
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The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the nation's telecom regulator, said more than 350 computers were reported damaged as of Friday, but warned that the number could quickly rise since up to 50,000 have been contaminated by the latest wave of cyber attacks.
Leading virus vaccine provider AhnLab and the KCC said affected computers will not be able to boot up and their files saved on their hard disk drives will be destroyed.
"It is crucial that computer owners download vaccine programs as a protective measure, even if their computers haven't been infected," said Park Chul-soon, a KCC official, who downplayed the possibility of another round of intrusions following the three-day long attack.
Three dozen local Web sites, including those of Cheong Wa Dae, the National Assembly, the Ministry of National Defense, leading online shopping mall Auction, and top Internet portals Daum and Naver, as well as Kookmin, Shinhan and Korea Exchange banks, have been knocked out by hackers, who have yet to be identified.
The country's spy agency said Friday attackers used IP addresses from 19 countries amid suspicions that North Korea had orchestrated the cyber outages. However, the culprit hasn't been pinpointed.
The first and second series of attacks hit 11 and 15 local sites, respectively, on Tuesday and Wednesday. But the third, on a much smaller scale, tampered with just seven sites Thursday evening.
The KCC said the multi-pronged hacking has significantly slowed down with no new break-in attempts on Friday.
"We're not spotting renewed suspicious signs yet, but we're still in emergency mode to counteract possible attacks," said Park.
The state-run Korea Information Security Agency said it has pinpointed host Web sites based in Austria, Germany, the United States, Georgia and South Korea, so blocking future attempts from identified sites will help prevent additional attacks.
Meanwhile, the KCC urged owners of all virus-infected computers to pay immediate attention to cleaning up their operating systems.
The latest data show that more users are logging online to download vaccine programs, but still a large number of virus-infected computer owners who've been contacted by Internet operators have failed to take proper measures.
As an emergency measure to prop up disabled online networks, the KCC ordered the nation's Internet service providers KT, SK Broadband and LG Dacom to deny access to contaminated computers until users clean up their operating systems.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:58 pm (UTC)@_@ confused.
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Date: 2009-07-10 05:02 pm (UTC)damn, that's going to cause a lot of issues, though. :x
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Date: 2009-07-10 06:38 pm (UTC)The netizens will have nothing to do ._.
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