S. Korea sees pro-Russia groups behind hacks
SEOUL—Pro-Russia hacking groups have conducted cyberattacks against South Korea after North Korea dispatched troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, Seoul’s presidential office said on Friday.
The office held an emergency intraagency meeting after detecting denial-of-service attacks on some government and private websites in recent days. Some of the websites experienced temporary outages but there was no serious damage, it said.
“Cyberattacks by pro-Russian hacktivist groups on our country have occurred intermittently in the past, but have become more frequent since North Korea dispatched troops to Russia and participated in the Ukraine war,” the office said in a statement.
Seoul and Washington have said there are more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers in Russia, and US officials and Ukraine’s defence minister said some of them have engaged in combat in Kursk, near the Ukraine border.
