South Korea has decided to take the help of China for the current investigations into the cyber attacks that had targeted government and financial websites across South Korea and the United States in the month of July this year. The attacks that had crippled these websites have been blamed on the North Korean Ministry of Telecommunications and has forced Seoul to seek Beijing’s expertise in the matter.

According to Won Sei-Hoon (Intelligence Service Chief, South Korea),

“Our search into the route of the attacks on South Korean and US sites found a line coming from China. The line was found to be on the IP (Internet protocol) that the North Korean Ministry of Post and Telecommunications is using on rent (from China).”

After the July cyber attacks, South Korea had repeatedly raised suspicions on the North for the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, that had rendered the websites inoperable for a few hours. During the attack, the hackers had infected numerous computers across the globe, due to which a flood of access requests were flooded to the websites and effectively overloaded the servers, thus shutting them down.

In a related story, Microsoft Corporation has also released a report, providing warnings to users, agencies and governments of the increasing threat of cyber attacks. As per the report, the hackers nowadays are fishing for opportunities in weak networks, through which they can send in malicious programs in an effort to steal data and personal information. These malicious programs and rouge software are increasingly becoming a serious threat to personal and national securities. According to Microsoft, hackers have found a new delivery method to insert their worms and codes into personal and office computers and that is use of flash drives. Users who make use of flash drives have been advised to format the drive before using it on their personal or office computers, as once connected the rouge codes, immediately attach themselves to the host system and begin the process of data theft.

Via Space War.