New Clue In South Korea Cyberattack Reveals Link To Chinese Criminals -- Christian Science Monitor
Cybersleuths picking through the digital bread crumbs left behind in Wednesday's massive South Korea cyberattack have found an interesting morsel: Apparently hackers used an 'exploit tool' made in China to infiltrate the computer networks.
The source of the cyberattack that damaged 32,000 computers at several banks and television stations in South Korea Wednesday remains unclear, but the digital traces left behind have led one cybersleuth to suggest that it has clear links to Chinese cybercrime organizations.
Though South Korean investigators initially said they had traced the attack to an Internet address in China, they have since stepped back from that statement. Yet cybersecurity experts looking at file names, Internet domain names, and other digital detritus left behind by the attackers – which has been published on Korean technical blogs – are coming to their own conclusions.
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Update #1: South Korea cyber attack 'increasingly likely' to have been government-led -- The Guardian
Update #2: South Korea Says It Misidentified Source of Cyberattack -- New York Times
My Comment: As cyber attacks go, this one was incredibly successful.
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