Signs of DDoS attack on North Korean internet and state websites go offline
North Korea's internet suffered outages, leaving 40 state-run websites inaccessible. A US network monitoring firm analysed a DDoS attack as the cause, citing large-scale traffic. The party behind the attack has not been identified.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- DDoS
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Outage of 40 North Korean state-run websites
- Cause / method
- Analysed as a DDoS attack involving large-scale traffic
- Location
- North Korea
Timeline
- A network monitoring firm analysed a DDoS attack as the cause of the North Korean internet outage.
- The outage of 40 state-run websites and the detection of large-scale traffic were reported, and the party behind the attack remained unidentified.
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