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US and South Korean government agencies, including the White House and the Pentagon, have been under sustained cyber-attack over the past five days.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said North Korea was behind the DDOS attacks, although US experts were not sure.

US officials and security professionals said the attacks on 27 web sites were unsophisticated and relatively small in scale and that their origins had not yet been determined, New York Times reported.

The attacks hit the Treasury, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department web sites in the US, and Korea’s presidential, defense and Foreign Ministry sites.

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