SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has been identified as the source of high-profile cyber attacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, a news report said today.
South Korea’s main spy agency told lawmakers that the North’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications uses the IP address — the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number — that triggered the Web attacks, the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported.
The North’s ministry leased the IP address from China, the report said, citing unidentified lawmakers briefed Thursday by the head of South Korea’s main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service. The spy agency declined to confirm the report.
Affected sites included those of the White House and the South’s presidential Blue House.
