[Brookit]

On March 4, 2011 McAfee began detecting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity against
targets in South Korea. The attacks were sourced from a botnet architecture leveraging compromised
hosts in South Korea. The DDoS attacks were targeting South Korean government websites as well
as the network of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK). In addition to the DDoS attacks, which were successful
in negatively impacting the availability of multiple Korean targets, McAfee also analyzed the malware
responsible for initially turning the attacking hosts into bots, and thus placing them under the command
and control of the botnet operator. While the attack itself seems fairly generic at first glance, there are
several things that make this particular combination of targets, malware, and botnet activity different
from many we’ve analyzed, warranting our investigation....

Interesting read about the latest DDoS attacks against South Korea...

http://blogs.mcafee.com/wp-content/uplo ... y-2011.pdf


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