The National Police Agency’s Cyber Terror Response Center warned Wednesday that it has received intelligence that Muslim hackers have placed Korea on its list of targets for cyberattacks around March 20, the third-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.
An official from the center said that since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, six Muslim hacker groups have targeted some 1,800 websites worldwide. In particular, a group known as Q8Crackers, presumed to be composed of Kuwaiti hackers, is said to have hacked into about 10 Korean websites last year.
According to police, the hackers deface websites by attaching anti-war and anti-American slogans onto their front pages. The hackers are also expected to use Korea, known for its well-connected broadband network, as a gateway to launch attacks on websites in other countries.
Al-Qaeda has declared that it would launch a “digital jihad” as part of its worldwide operations.
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This is all very amusing to me since it suggests that the National Police Agency seems to focus on attack from foreigners rather than the massive amount of corporate-sponsored web mayhem done by Korean companies (not to mention certain people that work for certain ISPs and help with spamming on the side).
I consider the Korean hacked websites that secretly download spyware or trojans to be much worse than a “digital bomb” from anyone.