A massive computer shutdown of two South Korean banks and media companies occurred Wednesday via an Internet malware attack. The malware wiped out the master boot records on the hard drives of the infected computers, overwriting the MBR with either one of these strings: PRINCPES PR!NCPES HASTATI. Figure 1: Snapshot of MBR after infection. The Read more…
Tags: banks, malware, MBR, media, South Korea, targeted attack, Unix
It’s a common misconception that mobile malware is a problem limited to users in a particular geographical region such as China or Eastern Europe. Last week, McAfee Labs mobile research department received a mobile malware sample that targets Android mobile phone users in South Korea. The sample pretends to be a popular coffee shop coupon Read more…
Tags: Android, sms, South Korea, trojan
On March 4th of this year, exactly 20 months to the day of a similar incident on US Independence Day in 2009, a botnet based out of South Korea launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against 40 sites affiliated with South Korean government, military and civilian critical infrastructure as well as U.S. Forces Korea Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, cyberwar, distributed denial of service, North Korea, Public Sector, South Korea
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