DDoS Attacks Target Korea University and Others Today... Police Launch Internal Investigation

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jung-yoon] Korea University’s course registration server was temporarily paralyzed due to a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, prompting the police to launch an investigation.

The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency began an internal investigation on the 20th into the DDoS attacks targeting university course registration sites, including Korea University and Chung-Ang University.

Korea University stated that "due to a large-scale DDoS attack from overseas, course registration was inevitably postponed from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At 2 p.m., the DDoS attack was repelled, and amid a fierce back-and-forth battle with the hackers, course registration proceeded. After intense clashes from 2:00 to 2:02 p.m. and from 2:12 to 2:17 p.m., course registration was concluded," explaining the situation.

However, the university decided to invalidate the day’s course registration in consultation with the Emergency Measures Committee of the Student Council. Second-year students will re-register around 10 a.m. on the 24th, and first-year students will do so around 10 a.m. on the 25th.

Earlier, on the 19th, Chung-Ang University also experienced server access disruptions due to a sudden influx of external traffic on its course registration server. Like Korea University, Chung-Ang University conducted two rounds of course registration but postponed the process due to unstable server access.

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