Official: 7 SKorean Web Sites Under Renewed Attack

An unidentified police officer of the National Police Agency walks by a screen showing hacker...

An unidentified police officer of the National Police Agency walks by a screen showing hacker attacks at the agency's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 9, 2009. North Korea, which has been firing missiles and spewing threats against the United States, has been identified by South Korea's main spy agency as a suspect in the cyber attacks targeting government and other Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea. (AP Photo/

(Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)

A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT, 5:30 a.m. EDT ) Thursday.

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He said one of the affected sites belongs to the government, the other six are private. Some are still working normally despite the attacks.

Earlier Thursday, the country's leading computer security company warned that another wave of cyber attacks was expected later in the day.

South Korea's spy agency suspects North Korea is behind the series of attacks that have triggered Web site outages in South Korea and the United States.

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