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North Korea or unidentified forces aligned with the communist nation may be preparing for full-fledged cyber-terrorism against South Korea or the United States<\/strong>, based on its “test” attacks in 2009 and earlier this year, a U.S. Internet security firm said yesterday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In a special report, McAfee Inc. said North Korea or its “sympathizers” seem to have been responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault against about 40 South Korean government and civilian Web sites that started March 4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The networks of the presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae, the National Intelligence Agency, the Foreign Ministry and U.S. Forces Korea were targeted in the attack<\/strong>, which was programmed to last 10 days. No serious damage was made public.<\/p>\n

The California-based company, affiliated with Intel Corp., tracked the source and pattern of the DDoS activity<\/strong>, which it called “Ten Days of Rain,” and conducted a technical analysis.<\/p>\n

“These attacks very closely resemble DDoS attacks that began on July 4 2009, Independence Day in the U.S. The 2009 attacks used a botnet of more than 150,000 machines predominantly concentrated in South Korea,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Based on the similarities between the 2011 and 2009 attacks, we believe that there is strong, although circumstantial, evidence to conclude that both attacks had originated from the same adversary,”<\/strong> it added.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s prosecutors earlier announced that North Korean hackers were behind the March DDos attack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

McAfee said it was only an exercise.<\/p>\n

“The motivations appear to outweigh the attack, making this truly seem like an exercise to test and observe response capabilities,” it said, “This may have been a test of South Korea’s preparedness to mitigate cyberattacks, possibly by North Korea or their sympathizers.”<\/p>\n

The company said, however, it did not find decisive evidence that links the March attacks to North Korea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

via Yonhap News<\/em>
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