{"id":2207129,"date":"2024-11-13T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/?p=2207129"},"modified":"2024-11-14T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:34:00","slug":"how-pro-russian-hackers-took-down-south-korea-websites-over-support-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/2024\/11\/how-pro-russian-hackers-took-down-south-korea-websites-over-support-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"How pro-Russian hackers took down South Korea websites over support for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
A series of coordinated cyberattacks by a pro-Russian coalition has left South Korea\u2019s web infrastructure reeling this month, after politically motivated hacktivists across the world banded together to oppose Seoul\u2019s <\/span>support for Ukraine<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The campaign came to light in South Korea after the pro-Russian hacktivist collective NoName057(16) <\/span>took down<\/span><\/a> the websites of the defense ministry and other government agencies, though initially it was <\/span>unclear<\/span><\/a> whether North Korea or Russia was behind the attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n Amid reports of <\/span>government websites<\/span><\/a> going offline and <\/span>farm machines<\/span><\/a> mysteriously <\/span>coming online<\/span><\/a>, the ROK presidential office eventually <\/span>acknowledged<\/span><\/a> that pro-Russian groups were responsible for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign, in which attackers overwhelmed target websites by flooding them with internet traffic<\/span><\/p>\n Seoul stated that the attacks left \u201cno significant damage\u201d beyond hampering access to some websites, but the campaign seemingly exposed vulnerabilities in South Korea\u2019s web infrastructure, which has been taken down by other DDoS campaigns in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n However, cybersecurity experts say that the latest DDoS campaign targeting South Korea is fundamentally a matter of scale rather than technical sophistication, and the most Seoul can do is bolster its digital infrastructure to limit the damage from future attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n COORDINATED CAMPAIGN<\/b><\/p>\n NoName057(16) kicked off a large-scale DDoS campaign against South Korea last Monday in response to foreign minister Cho Tae-yul <\/span>suggesting<\/span><\/a> that the ROK may review its stance on supplying weapons to Ukraine after North Korea deployed troops to aid Russia\u2019s war efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n