July 9, 2009 -- South Korean Web sites were attacked again Thursday after a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea that several officials suspect North Korea was behind.
Seven sites -- one belonging to the government and the others to private entities -- were attacked in the third round of cyber assaults, said Ku Kyo-young, an official from the state-run Korea Communications Commission.
Earlier in the day, the country's leading computer security company, AhnLab, had warned of a new attack after analyzing a virus program that sent a flood of Internet traffic to paralyze Web sites in both South Korea and the United States.
About two hours after the latest attack, all but one shopping site were working normally. The Yonhap news agency had earlier reported that the Web site of the leading Kookmin Bank was down for about 30 minutes.
Twelve South Korean sites were initially attacked Tuesday, followed by strikes Wednesday on 10 others, including those for government offices. The U.S. targets included the White House,
Pentagon, Treasury Department and the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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