A third wave of cyber attacks has hit South Korea blocking or impeding access to official and private websites, amid suspicions North Korea or its supporters are to blame.
The US State Department said on Thursday that its website also came under attack for a fourth day as it tried to prevent further attacks after the White House and Pentagon websites were among US government entities targeted this week.
AhnLab, a South Korean developer of anti-virus software, had forecast the virus, which hit dozens of US and Korean sites in recent days, would return at 6:00 pm on Thursday (01430
IST) and hit seven domestic sites.
“The third attack was bigger than our office had predicted, affecting some of the sites also hit earlier in the week,” a company official told a news agency.
The websites of parliament, the defence ministry, the foreign ministry and the National Intelligence Service were either responding slowly or shut down intermittently.
The largest bank, Kookmin, also said access to its website was blocked at one point and it was trying hard to
normalise Internet banking.
Officials at the government’s Korea Information Security Agency told a news agency the damage appeared less serious thanks to concerted efforts to combat the problem.
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