Police working with FBI to trace hackers behind recent cyberattacks

Korean police are collaborating with the FBI to identify the hackers responsible for recent cyberattacks on the country's financial institutions, according to sources. Authorities, including the Korean National Police Agency, are in the process of cooperating with the FBI to gather crucial investigation data such as account details and access logs from major U.S.-based cybersecurity and AI companies.

CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, earlier pointed to a 26-year-old Chinese man from Guangdong Province as a possible suspect, but he has denied any involvement. Local authorities are open to the idea that other individuals or groups could be behind the attacks, sources said on condition of anonymity. Police are examining CrowdStrike's data to try to determine the hackers' identities, as well as documents that suggest links to a Chinese distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack group.