Attacks against South Korean government websites could have suddenly become a lot more threatening than previously thought, after McAfee Labs claimed they could have been North Korean cyber war drills. As Reuters reports, the vice president of threat research at the company, Dmitri Alperovitch, raised these thoughts on behalf of the company. Alperovitch believes that these attacks may be more significant against national security than those of Anonymous and LulzSec, as he believes they were internet reconnaissance missions. They were intended to test the impact of cyber weapons should they be used in a war. His wording was as follows:
“This stuff is much more insidious and much more dangerous to national security than what Anonymous is doing.”
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