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Four Years of DarkSeoul Cyberattacks Against South Korea Continue on Anniversary of Korean War

Jun

2013

Yesterday, June 25, the Korean peninsula observed a series of cyberattacks coinciding with the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War. While multiple attacks were conducted by multiple perpetrators, one of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks observed yesterday against South Korean government websites can be directly linked to the DarkSeoul gang and Trojan.Castov.We […]

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Nepalese government websites compromised to serve Zegost RAT

Aug

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that two Nepalese government websites, the National Information Technology Center (NITC) and the Office of the Prime Minister and Council Minister (nitc.gov.np and opmcm.gov.np respectively), have been compromised and injected with malicious code that tries to exploit the Java vulnerability CVE-2012-0507. The aim of this injection is to install, through successfully exploiting that Java weakness, […]

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Anonymous takes down El Salvadoran sites

Nov

2011

The hacktivist group’s “Operation Justice El Salvador” branch has “tried to attack our website to publicize the private information of internal and external users,” the economy ministry said. According to the AFP report, presidential spokesman David Rivas told reporters that the attack took the form of a distributed denial of service. The attack comes as […]

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