S. Korea: Trojan Horse Attacks Originating in China - Largest in History
Yonhap (via Chosun Ilbo) ^ | 02/08/07
Posted on 02/08/2007 4:12:05 AM MST by TigerLikesRooster
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Trojan Horse Attacks Originating in China: Largest in History
Over 1,000 sites, 92,000 PC's infected
KISA, "Install MS security patches"
Yonhap News
2007.02.08 16:57
Largest Trojan horse attacks in history, originated in China, occurred, which are designed to take over personal accounts at Internet game sites.
Korea Information Security Agency (KISA) announced on Feb. 8 that they detected malware such as Trojan horses infected about 1,000 sites inside and outside S. Korea and shut them down.
A source at KISA said, "We detected that, from late last year to mid-January this year, Trojan horses originating in China were spreading on a large scale via server(s) at an Internet Data Center (IDC,) and shut down the server(s.)"
This incident affected 1,000 routing sites, and the largest in history as a single site dissemination episode.
There were 6,617 incidents of KISA shutting down routing sites for such malware.
The malware in question installs Trojan horses if a user visits the home page of the site and he did not install security patch at his PC. It then transmits overseas user ID and password for Han Game and Maple Story, on-line computer games.
The routing sites involved included many (Internet) game sites. About 620,000 PC's experienced attempted attacks, and about 92,000 sites, 15% of them, were (actually) infected.
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