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South Korean cyberattacks used hijacked patch management accounts |
March 24, 2013
The attackers who unleashed devastating hard-drive wiping malware on South Korean TV stations and banks earlier this week executed at least part of the attack by hijacking the firms' patch management admin accounts, the software vendor involved has said.
According to South Korean antivirus company AhnLab, the 20 March attacks used stolen IDs and passwords for its Patch Manager software to distribute the malware to an unknown number of the 32,000 PCs affected inside the victim firms, including the Munhwa, YTN, Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) TV stations, and the Shinhan, Jeju and Nonghyup banks.
These systems were under the control of the organisations involved and not AhnLab itself, the company emphasised.
"Contrary to early reports, no security hole in any AhnLab server or product was used by the attackers to deliver the malicious code," AhnLab said in a statement.
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