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S.Korea attacked by reactivated virus
07/12/2010
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July 9, 2010 - 9:39 AM
Seoul – South Korean government and private websites have come under cyber-attack a year after a major attack briefly crippled sites domestically and in the United States, officials said on Thursday.
Five websites including those of the presidential Blue House and the foreign ministry were attacked Wednesday but little damage was done, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said.
On July 7, 2009, the so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down 25 Internet sites for hours - 11 in South Korea and 14 in the United States.
"The DDos attacks resumed exactly a year later as some contaminated PCs were left untreated," the KCC said in a statement.
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