DDoS waves took North Korean state websites offline for about 32 hours
Original title: Multiple Waves of DDoS Attacks Caused This Week’s Outage in North Korea
Kentik tied failures starting October 20 to traffic from Vietnam, Venezuela and elsewhere, but named no operator.
Doug Madory of Kentik said several waves of traffic, not one continuous surge, made North Korean public sites unreachable. More than 40 .kp websites were disrupted, including the foreign ministry and state news agency. Access stayed unstable for roughly 32 hours. Source countries do not identify who ordered the floods, and no botnet has been linked.
Unconfirmed: Kentik says listed countries do not show who ordered the attack, and route changes are not proven defensive.
- Traffic began at 02:01 UTC on October 20.
- South Korean reporting put recovery around 7 p.m. local time on October 21.
- Name servers in 175.45.176.0/24 had repeated downtime.
- Kentik said its view covered only part of traffic toward North Korea.
- Peak volume, method and tools were not reported.
Impact: State websites unreachable for roughly 32 hours
- Organizations
- Kentik
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Multiple waves of DDoS attacks disrupted North Korea’s public internet services this week, knocking major state websites offline. Kentik’s internet analysis director Doug Madory linked the outages to sudden traffic floods from Vietnam, the Philippines, Venezuela, and other countries. The traffic began at 02:01 UTC on October 20, making the country’s websites unreachable.
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