North Korea's Internet goes down due to DDoS attack



On January 26, 2022, it was revealed that the North Korean Internet had been blocked for approximately six hours. Investigations have pointed out the possibility of a

DDoS attack .

N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks -researchers | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorean-internet-downed-by-suspected-cyber-attacks-researchers-2022-01-26/



DDOS attack cuts off North Korea's internet after fifth missile test | NK PRO

https://www.nknews.org/pro/ddos-attack-cuts-off-north-koreas-internet-after-fifth-missile-test/

According to security expert Junade Ali , who monitors various North Korean servers, all traffic to and from North Korea was blocked after North Korea launched a projectile on January 25, 2022. It was said that. Although I was able to reconnect to my mail server after about 6 hours, websites such as North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the official portal site Naenara have been down for some time.

NK Pro, which publishes news about North Korea, also reported that 'most websites in North Korea cannot be accessed because the DNS of North Korea has stopped communicating on the route that the data packet follows.'



'Since multiple servers were down at the same time, it is possible that a DDoS attack that puts a heavy load on the servers with a large amount of data traffic was carried out,' Ali said. 'It's common for one server to go offline for a period of time, but it's rare for all the servers to go down and the network to be cut off,' he said.

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