SUSPECTED CYBERATTACK

Researchers said North Korea’s internet was breached in a second wave of cyberattacks, Reuters reported.

British-based cybersecurity researcher Junade Ali told Reuters that all internet traffic to and from North Korea was taken down during the height of the outage.

The cyberattack occurred for six hours on Wednesday and came a day after the country launched its fifth missile test this month, according to Reuters.

“When someone would try to connect to an IP address in North Korea, the internet would literally be unable to route their data into the country,” Ali said.

After the outage was over, North Korean institutions such as Air Koryo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the official government portal Naenara still experienced stress and downtime from the attack, Reuters reported.