South Korean Websites Taken Down In Possible Cyberattack From North Korea

The web servers of three television networks and three major banks in South Korea were brought down by cyberattacks earlier today and, naturally, the first suspected culprit is North Korean hackers. Websites and ATMs were offline for several hours and even some employees at the TV stations were not able to get their computers up and running. Police called the attack "pretty massive" and the TV stations were still struggling to get web operations back online. (Their broadcasts were not affected.) 

South Korea military officials did not explicitly blame the North for taking down their sites, but they did raise their readiness level in response to the outage. Just last week, it was the North that was accusing the South (with some help from the United States) of launching cyberattacks on their websites, continuing the escalating back-and-forth rhetoric of recent weeks. The North also had their share of internet outages that also appeared to have been the result of deliberate attacks.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire.