A Vietnam based security organization, Bkis Internet Security, is a member of APCERT (Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team) was asked by the Korean CERT Team KrCERT to investigate the recent July 2009 DDOS Botnet attacks. Bkis Internet Security analyzed what it received from KrCERT, located 8 command and control centers, and obtained access to two of the command centers. After analyzing the traffic, Bkis reported that the original estimates of 20,000 to 50,000 infected systems involved in the Botnet was really more in the line of 166,909 zombies from 74 countries.
The U.S. Cert Teams and the Korean Cert Teams continue to investigate these incidents in the hopes of identifying the source of the attacks.
Links:
H-Online DDoS attacks on South Korea and U.S.
Bkis Internet Security - Korea and U.S. DDoS attacks
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