Police Probe Cyber Attack on Joongang Ilbo

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/06/12/2012061200809.html

The Chosunilbo
June 12, 2012

Police are investigating a cyber attack against the Joongang Ilbo daily. 
The police cyber crimes investigative unit said on Monday that it had 
received a report that the newspaper's website and the intranet 
journalists use to file stories had been hacked.

The website was attacked at around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and could not 
be accessed. Instead, it displayed a photo of a white cat smiling with 
its mouth covered and a caption that read: "Hacked by IsOne." The daily 
diverted readers to an alternative site, but the unstable internal 
network caused problems.

Police believe the hackers carefully planned their attack and planted a 
malicious code to paralyze the computer network. "This went beyond the 
antics of a lone hacker on a joyride and involved a carefully planned 
attack against the server itself," said a police officer. "We are not 
ruling out the possibility of North Korean cyber terrorism."

Police are focusing their investigation on identifying the attacker 
while keeping their eyes open for further attacks against other media.

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