Reports are coming in that North Korea is behind a series of attacks that affected South Korean known as a distributed denial of service. Essentially, a virus infects computers and makes them flood the targeted websites with traffic, causing them to overload and shut down.
The attack reportedly targeted 25 websites including the White House, the Blue House (the office of the South Korean president), the website of the Chosun Ilbo (a South Korean Newspaper), various foreign ministries, two banks and a joint US-South Korea military command.
An unnamed U.S. defense official told Fox News that the defense and state departments were also targeted.
The South Korean Defense Security Command reported last month that it detects an average of 95,000 attempts to penetrate the country's military computer networks per day.
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