Cyber attacks on South Korea-US a test run: McAfee
The DDoS attacks were made by usurping control of virus-infected computers in South Korea to overwhelm targeted websites with simultaneous requests for pages or information, the report indicated.
“This may have been a test of South Korea’s preparedness to mitigate cyber attacks, possibly by North Korea or their sympathizers,” McAfee said in a report titled “Ten Days of Rain.”
McAfee security researchers said it was 95 percent likely that the same culprits behind the July 4, 2009 cyber attacks were involved with the online assault in March of this year.
“We believe this incident… has very clear anti-Korean and anti-US political motivations and potentially is even more insidious,” Wicherski said in a blog post.