DDoS waves took North Korean state websites offline for about 32 hours
Kentik tied failures starting October 20 to traffic from Vietnam, Venezuela and elsewhere, but named no operator.
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40 articles · newest firstDDoS waves knock more than 40 North Korean websites offline
Kentik tied October 20 outages to synchronized traffic from Vietnam, the Philippines and Venezuela; no perpetrator was identified.
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- UNK_DoubleCheckthreat actor · 7
- UNK_LateNightthreat actor · 7
- APT31threat actor · 6
- UNK_QuietRacketthreat actor · 6
- Proofpointvendor · 6
- Microsoftvendor · 6
- Violet Typhoonthreat actor · 4
- Google Chromeproduct · 4
- ShadowPadmalware · 4
- TA412threat actor · 4
- Microsoft Windowsproduct · 3
- ChatGPTproduct · 3
- Chromeproduct · 3
- Proofpointorganization · 3
- AlphaAgentmalware · 2
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