Hackers Hit South Korea, Some Finger The North

Someone hit a South Korean ISP with a nasty cyberattack this morning that took out servers from three broadcast networks and two financial institutions, leaving everyone to wonder who's responsible?

Of course some people immediately fingered the North, but South Korean authorities have yet to confirm or deny the North's involvement.

It would seem highly likely that all paths should lead to the North Korean government seeing how they've launched a cyberattack on the south before, but that information hasn't been determined yet.

What is known so far is that a group claiming responsibility for the attack calls itself the "Whois Team."

Tensions between the North and the South are already at an all time high so if the North is found to be behind the attack this could prove to be very interesting -- and scary.

[The network provided by LG UPlus Corp. showed a page that said it had been hacked by a group calling itself the "Whois Team," an unknown group. It featured three skulls and a warning that this was the beginning of "Our Movement." 

Servers at television networks YTN, MBC and KBS were affected as well as Shinhan Bank and NongHyup Bank, both major financial institutions, police and government officials said. 

"We sent down teams to all affected sites. We are now assessing the situation. This incident is pretty massive, and it will take a few days to collect evidence," a police official said. 

Police and government officials declined to speculate on whether North Korea, which has threatened to attack both South Korea and the United States after it was hit with United Nations sanctions for its February nuclear test, was behind the cyberattack. 

North Korea has in the past staged cyberattacks on the world's most wired country, targeting conservative newspapers, banks and government institutions.]source: Worldnews.nbcnews.com

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