South Korea says North Korea behind last month’s cyberattacks

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In this Friday, July 5, 2013 photo, a man walks by a sign at Cyber Terror Response Center of National Police Agency in Seoul, South Korea. The hackers who knocked out tens of thousands of South Korean computers simultaneously this year are out to do far more than erase hard drives, cybersecurity firms say: They also are trying to steal South Korean and U.S. military secrets with a malicious set of codes they’ve been sending through the Internet for years. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean investigators say North Korea carried out cyberattacks on the websites of South Korean media companies and the president and prime minister’s offices last month.

The attacks came on the June 25th Korean War anniversary.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science says it’s blaming North Korea based on analysis of codes, Internet addresses and personal computers used to launch the attacks.

The government-led team of investigators say the online assaults were planned for several months.

The attackers hacked file-sharing websites in South Korea to find security weaknesses.

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