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Attack on North Korea

US DDoS towards North Korean

Date (as written)
01.03.2017
Victim country
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Actors (as written)
US CYCOM (United States)
Tags
Disruption
Source
EuRepoC
The United States targeted North Korea’s military spy agency. The attack was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign with an aim to flood North Korean spy agency’s servers with traffic, crippling its access to the internet.
https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/cyberwarfare-us-launches-ddos-attacks-against-n-korean-spy-agency-2902.html;https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/how-to-make-sense-of-offensive-us-cyber-operations-against-north-korean-military-intelligence/