DDoS attacks on US and S. Korea came from U.K.

Although many previously thought that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks last week originated in North Korea, the latest reports indicate that the source was actually the United Kingdom.

This is according to a study done by a Vietnamese computer security company, Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS). In a statement posted on the company’s website, senior security director, Nguyen Minh Duc, said that they managed to gain control of two of the eight servers involved in the attacks, and by doing so, were able to pinpoint the master server. That server has an IP address in the 195.90.118.x range, which is registered to Global Digital Broadcast in the U.K.