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North Korea Linked to the SWIFT Bank Hacks (bloomberg.com)
North Korea could be behind the recent string of digital attacks on Asian banks, says Symantec. The cyber security firms notes that the attacks could be traced as far back as October 2015, two months prior to the earliest known incident. As you may recall, hackers stole around $80M from Bangladesh's central bank in March, and a similar attack was seen at a Vietnamese bank earlier this month. Symantec says that it has found evidence that distinctive malware that was used in both the hacks had strong commonalities with the 2014 Sony Picture breaches. Security firm FireEye also investigated the matter. From a Bloomberg report: Investigators are examining possible computer breaches at as many as 12 banks linked to Swift's global payments network that have irregularities similar to those in the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, according to a person familiar with the probe. FireEye, the security firm hired by the Bangladesh bank, has been contacted by the other banks, most of which are in Southeast Asia, because of signs that hackers may have breached their networks, the person said. They include banks in the Philippines and New Zealand but not in Western Europe or the United States. There is no indication of whether money was taken.
They just want to fuck you up!
So you're telling me that an attack originates in a country with almost ZERO internet connectivity, and it took this long to track?
Pics of hot North Korean girls in military uniforms or it didn't happen!
The norks got the fastest internet and the whole country is connected, like. And everybody knows exactly what a "hack" is so it's certainly clear what happened and it makes lucid sense to put it this way. You have but to say "hacker" and everybody knows, oh yeah, that guy. Such wonderfully precise reporting, this. It certainly makes complete sense to me. Thank you for this article that brought us utter clarity all around.
Since this is all electronic - no one walked out of any bank with 80 million in a suitcase - there must be a trail. This trail certainly doesn't end at the Band of Kim Jong Un. Why is it not possible to say, "Well... This transaction was fraudulent. Let's reverse it!"
The money went someplace, and the movement of 80 million would certainly leave traces.
I'm sure I'm totally ignorant of how such a thing, in the world of electronic money transfers between banks and governments, could not be backed up.
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Seems everything is blamed on N.K. these days. It's perhaps too easy to do: everybody believes they are jerks, and they can't sue back for defamation if the accusation is wrong.
I'm not saying they didn't do it, only that their situation sure makes them a highly convenient scapegoat.
It reminds me of the time that our boss retired, and every problem was blamed on him afterward because he wasn't around to set the record straight. We knew the accusers were full of it because he didn't even work on most of the projects that flopped. We started to blame plumbing problems on him as a running joke.
Table-ized A.I.
I'm a network engineer with 30 years experience and I specialize in penetration testing and computer forensics.
This is nothing but more propaganda by the Obama administration to make N.K. look bad so he has an excuse to start trouble with N.K.
Do NOT be fooled by it.
Just who types this bullshit?
We know they do bad things, so they are the goto bad-guys now. After all, if they support counterfeiting, what else won't they do?
Honestly, we probably have no idea who did this, but they are the most likely bad actors.
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A country in which few people have access to the Internet (few of whom are likely to have real computer skills) and a generally poorly educated population has produced all these skilled hackers that have hacked multiple companies and banks?
It doesn't seem very likely.
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just more propaganda against one of several countries on the U.S political agenda. North Korea don't have nowhere near the resources and skill-set to do this, period. If it comes out of the foul mouth of the war-mongering U.S, then be highly suspicious of it.
There's a simple answer to government sanctioned hacking - disconnect them. No muss, no fuss.
Basically the new leader has the entire country oriented towards computer science. He basically built a small city just for them, with much higher standards of living than the rest of the population. They even have malls, restaurants, taxis, cars, everything. So now every teen has incentive to be good at software as it can be their entire family ticket out of poverty and hunger. He can move his family, and his parents to a free apartment there. Of course it's still very controlled, imagine something like checkpoints with armed guards to bypass if you want to even go in.
...run out of Arabic terrorist organization to blame on?