A pro-Russian hacktivist group has claimed responsibility for distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattacks against South Korean government websites this week, framing it as retaliation for Seoul’s response to North Korean troop deployments.

NoName057(16) announced on Telegram on Monday that it orchestrated the campaign in response to ROK foreign minister Cho Tae-yul suggesting Seoul may review its stance on supplying weapons to Ukraine after North Korea sent soldiers to aid Russia’s war efforts.

The collective warned South Korea’s “Russophobic authorities” against supplying arms to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “militants” and published an initial list of websites taken offline, including the