North Korea is suspected to be the culprit in a botnet attack against South Korean and U.S. Websites. Though, even if you have rubbed “Dear Leader” the wrong way, the attacks supposedly coming from North Korea come from a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers using a 2004-era MyDoom variant. By way of comparison, F-Secure says that they’ve calculated nearly nine million infections of Confickr. At the peak, the attacks are putting out 25Mbits/sec… roughly enough to saturate two cable network connections, one fiber-to-the-street connection, or half of a fiber-to-the-home connection.
So, if you’re having performance problems today and you get told a story that it’s all because of Kim Jong-Il, skepticism is an appropriate response.
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