North Korean internet was hit by DDoS cyberattack, network monitoring firm says

By Brenda Goh SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) A cyberattack likely caused intermittent internet outages in North Korea that took down several of the reclusive country s ​state-managed websites this week, analysis by US network ‌monitoring company Kentik found. North Korea s internet experienced multiple waves of traffic from places such as Vietnam and the Philippines, at the same time as several North Korean websites began experiencing outages over ‌a ​32-hour period that began on Tuesday, ⁠Doug Madory, Kentik s director ⁠of internet analysis, told Reuters on Friday. This traffic all started at the same time and it is coming from Vietnam and Venezuela. That s definitely a ​DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service ) attack, he said. Kentik s data showed that the sharp spikes in traffic began at around 11 ⁠a.m. local time (0201 GMT) on ⁠Tuesday. However, the data does not indicate ​who the perpetrators are and Kentik only analysed a portion of ​the traffic directed at North Korea, Madory said. Th