North Korea Linked To Global Hacking Operation Against Critical Infrastructure, Telecoms (thehill.com) 51
A suspected North Korean hacking campaign has expanded to targets in 17 different countries, including the U.S., pilfering information on critical infrastructure, telecommunications and entertainment organizations, researchers say. From a report: Cybersecurity firm McAfee released new research on the hacking campaign this week, calling it Operation GhostSecret and describing the attackers as having "significant capabilities" to develop and use multiple cyber tools and rapidly expand operations across the globe. The findings demonstrate the growing sophistication of North Korea's army of hackers, which has been blamed for high-profile hacking operations such as the WannaCry malware outbreak last year.
Impressive for a country with no internet access (Score:1)
Re:No way (Score:5, Interesting)
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created a volcano that may spew radiation to nearby countries.
At that latitude, the prevailing winds are westerly, so the spewing radiation is Japan's problem, not China's.
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Stick it on a cargo ship and detonate it in a busy port before Customs even checks it.
What possible reason would NK have to do that? How would they benefit?
And don't bring up the nonsense about Kim being "irrational" and "unstable". That is just propaganda unsupported by any evidence. Kim has been extremely rational at keeping his dynasty in power, as were his father and grandfather.
Entertainment Organizations (Score:1)
Just imagine how much this movie piracy thing would lessen if there would be legal ways for the Great Leader to fulfill his movie library!
It isn't NK (Score:2, Interesting)
It is mostly China which is using NK as a proxy. NK earns foreign currency and China can get intelligence information without getting caught.
Re:It isn't NK (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, I'm pretty sure it's Russians paying China to be a proxy, who's paying North Korea to be a proxy.
You know what they say. The proxy of my enemy is my proxy.
It's proxies all the way down.
Etc.
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They're just re-using attack vectors our own governments and commercial sectors have been relying on for decades. There's almost no money to be made in securing other people's data (mostly because they're too uneducated or uncreative to quantify the threat) but there's tons of money to be made selling it.
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Excuse me .. It's *very honorable* hacking (Score:2)
And not only that, I suspect that it is also bigly stable genius level hacking. After all, only the best people are doing it.
Now excuse me while I go watch some TV^w^w^w read some Intelligence Documents on the subject.
Going 'way out on a limb, here... (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.
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I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.
Don't be so sure. Kim is not China's lackey. He had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, gruesomely executed. Jang was widely seen as "China's guy" within Kim's government, and the execution was perceived as a message to China that he was not going to be a pushover.
His father and grandfather also occasionally purged their governments of people considered too "pro-China" (and too pro-Russia).
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Good point.
Poor NK regime (Score:2, Insightful)
They've been saddled with the responsibility of being part of the world's "axis of evil" and have limited real capabilities. I guess hacking is the best they can do to keep up their role as potential threat to world peace and stability in order to keep American tax dollars flowing into the military industrial complex.
Fight fire (Score:2)
GOD DAMN IT!! Can't someone hack fatboy's Warcraft account and delete all his phat loot?
Fight fire with fire!
Everyone knows (Score:1)
They are takim them babies out of the incubators! (Score:1)
Nayirah Kuwaiti girl testimony [youtube.com]
You can tell what they think about their population, when they sell them off as dumb - again and again the very same way.