Alright, I have written about the "cyber warfare" between South-North Koreas, which involved the DDoS attack on Korean counterpart of 4chan, DCinside, and the hacking of North Korean propaganda machine, Uriminzokkiri. If you are interested about the previous stories, you can read my previous posts detailing on these events here.
But to make things easier, I will summarize what happened: a dude in DCinside posted a poem that apparently praised Kim Jong-Il, which hilariously turned out to be an anagram that explicitly dissed him and his son, Kim Jong-Un. Then, people at DCinside got excited about this--especially those hanging out in a page called Yeonpyeong Gallery (a page dedicated to provoking NK after shelling of the island). So, just because they could, they decided to launch a DDoS attack on Uriminzokkiri. However, Uriminzokkiri retaliated, which ended up with enraged hackers of DCinside hacking not only the Uriminzokkiri website, but also its twitter and youtube accounts.
But it turns out that the one who launched the DDoS attack on DCinside was in fact was a 19 years-old (probably 17 or 18, as Koreans add one more year) high school student, who is likely to be one of those DCin's. Here goes the translation of the original article published by Kyunghyang Daily.
"The DDoS attack which triggered the Korean Cyber warfare turned out to be a 'one man show' of a teenager who wanted to draw attention to himself. The officials of the Police Department of Cyber Terror Response Centre announced on 28th that they had booked male teenager with the last name Moon without detention.
According to the police, Mr. Moon is accused of spreading a malaware disguised as a video file titled 'shortcut to celebrity (translator's comment: this is supposed to look like a porn video)' on 'Yeonpyeong Gallery' so that 255 infected zombie PC's would automatically launch DDoS attacks on 'Yeonpyeong Gallery' on January 6th. Mr. Moon hacked another high school student's ID to upload this file.
Due to the DDoS attacks on 'Yeonpyeong Gallery,' there was difficulties in access between 9:11 PM to 9:40 PM on the same day. According to the results of the investigation, Mr. Moon also attacked 'Afreeca TV,' which is a internet broadcasting website, between 11:10 PM to 11:40 PM.
The cyber warfare between North and South Korea ensued when Mr. Moon's DDoS attack was mistakenly labeled as a North Korean act. On the next day, the users of the 'Yeonpyeong Gallery' hacked 'Uriminzokkiri,' a propaganda machine aimed at South Korea, and the twitter and youtbe accounts of the North Korean government as a retaliation.
Some internet users also blamed the massive scale DDoS attack which took place on July 7th 2008. The Police and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) had been investigating about this incident, also assuming this to be a North Korean deed. Mr. Moon said during the police investigation that he "had no political motives. [I] just wanted to draw attention."
*Original Article in Korean (Source: Kyunghyang Daily) click here.
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