South Korea’s Defense Ministry website has suffered outages this week after being targeted by a cyberattack, officials said Wednesday. The cyberattack occurred after cybersecurity watchdog the Korea Internet Security Agency (also known as KISA) warned of possible hacking attacks by South Korea. North.
The unusual DDoS attack suffered by the South Korean Ministry of Defense
The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took place around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday this week. A ministry official mentioned that, as a result, the South Korean military decided to take response measures, adding that the website is now functioning normally again.
Although the situation appeared to have been resolved, the following day, Wednesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) website also appeared to be experiencing connection instability issues, which caused the Cyber ​​Operations Command to investigate the issue.
A DDoS attack refers to a situation where a large number of infected devices are used to overwhelm a targeted server or website with a massive volume of traffic.
A military official reported that authorities have blocked the IP addresses of the source of the attack and are currently investigating who could have been behind the attack. The man also noted that such an attack on the ministry’s website is rare.
As we mentioned before, the possibility of an attack of this type was already foreseen. On Monday, the South Korea’s Internet Security Agency had requested local organizations and businesses to increase their data protection preparedness, citing the increasing risks of cyber attacks related to the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia.
Attacks on websites of several South Korean ministries: authorities intensify defense efforts in the face of continued threats.
This Wednesday morning, another attack was also detected against the website of the South Korean Ministry of Environment. The website was down for a while during the morning, before specialists managed to restore it.
An official from the National Information Resources Service (NIRS), an entity affiliated with South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Security, commented that not only the website of the Ministry of Environment, but also those of Other ministries were affected by the DDoS attacks, adding that while the attacks appear to have subsided for now, they continue to defend against them as they are “not over yet.”
Source: https://reporteasia.com/tecnologia/2024/11/06/ministerio-defensa-surcoreano-sufre-ciberataque/
