hacks - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive Discover the Truth Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:40:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-siteicon-2-150x150.jpg hacks - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive 32 32 87123917 Cyber Attacks Against the U.S. Government – July 2009 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cyber-attacks-against-the-u-s-government-july-2009/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyber-attacks-against-the-u-s-government-july-2009 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:14:03 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=430 The July 2009 cyber attacks were a series of coordinated cyber attacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States. The attacks involved the activation of a botnet—a large number of hijacked computers—that maliciously accessed targeted websites with the intention of causing their servers to overload due to [...]

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]]> The July 2009 cyber attacks were a series of coordinated cyber attacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States.

The attacks involved the activation of a botnet—a large number of hijacked computers—that maliciously accessed targeted websites with the intention of causing their servers to overload due to the influx of traffic, known as a DDoS attack.

Most of the hijacked computers were located in South Korea.

The estimated number of the hijacked computers varies widely; around 20,000 according to the South Korean National Intelligence Service, around 50,000 according to Symantec’s Security Technology Response group, and more than 166,000 according to a Vietnamese computer security researcher who analyzed the log files of the two servers the attackers controlled.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Documents relating to this incident [ 25 Pages, 1.13MB ]

 Department of State Documents relating to this incident [ 322 Pages, 14.16MB ]

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