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Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 00:07:54 CST

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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200702/200702090011.html

Feb. 9, 2007

Some 1,000 Korean Internet sites were attacked, leaving 92,000 Korean
computers infected with a malicious computer program, the Korea
Information Security Agency (KISA) announced Thursday. The KISA said
that it took emergency measures against a malicious computer program
that steals the personal information of Korean gamers. The agency told
1,000 Internet sites that they had fallen victim to large-scale computer
break-ins and advised them to delete the program.

Hackers aimed to obtain IDs and passwords of Korean gamers who use
online games Hangame and MapleStory, targeting the Internet sites of the
game companies. When users log into the hacked sites, the malicious
program is stealthily installed on their computers, throwing the door
open for hackers to steal their IDs and passwords.

The computer security agency said that 620,000 Korean computers were
attacked and 92,000 of those with weak security protection were infected
by the program. The agency believes that a group of Chinese hackers
committed the attack, as Korea is often a target of Chinese
cyber-thieves looking to steal personal information.

The hackers took advantage of security flaws in the Microsoft Windows
operating system. The attack did not affect computer users who regularly
updated a free security program distributed by Microsoft via the
Internet. The computer security agency advised personal computer users
to download an automatic security update program from a site jointly
established by the agency and Microsoft if they want to block further
break-in attempts.

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