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North Korea Linked To Global Hacking Operation Against Critical Infrastructure, Telecoms (thehill.com)
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.
That's how they hacked the US election.
No way. It couldn't be North Korea. I just heard their leader is very honorable. No chance a guy like that would allow something like this to go on in his country.
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!
Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!
It is mostly China which is using NK as a proxy. NK earns foreign currency and China can get intelligence information without getting caught.
We know it's happening and who is doing it. Why can we not stop this?
I can only imagine the headlines in NK -- "Master Fearless Leader hacks America. Kim Dung Hong solong declares victory with Americans in retreat!"
Seriously though, LUL? They have like one /24 address block for the entire country.
we can take them at their word
nation states are pathological liars
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.
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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.
CIA is busy today.
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.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
no money in it. duh.
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.
Because the two geographical areas have about the same internet access and number of people with the skills and knowledge required to pull it off.
Stop your anti-North Korea bullshit. They can't hack anyone, and you have no solid evidence they did. What we do have evidence of however is the U.S. hacking and sabotaging every other country on the face of the earth, so let's look at that instead.
Because if you try to fight the U.S. government then they will declare you a terrorist and a threat to national security. That's the true answer unfortunately. (and no, North Korea aren't hacking anyone.)
GOD DAMN IT!! Can't someone hack fatboy's Warcraft account and delete all his phat loot?
Fight fire with fire!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
high-profile hacking operations such as the WannaCry malware outbreak last year.
Whomever did WannaCry just re-purposed leaked NSA malware. Americans are the ones we know are attacking the infrastructure of the whole world.
Getting leaked material and making viruses that spread indiscriminately is not high-profile hacking.
Everyone knows the best way to hack modern computing systems is with MS DOS and a 56k modem.
Oh my Gawd! Not again:
:-P
Nayirah Kuwaiti girl testimony
You can tell what they think about their population, when they sell them off as dumb - again and again the very same way.
But a little more than msmash is capable of, so the article says "hacked!"
In other news, msmash still not a hacker.
Mr Kimmy Fatboy and his evil-assisstant posed as Russians and deprived Hillary of the win.
Fatboy and assistant has the only satellite link to the intertubes.
Does that make sense ?
Oh, and he used a Russian accent, so Hillary and her deep state assumed it must be the Rooshians.
They changed the magnetic field with their soviet-age SupaCoilz and if you look to Japan from Korea, the compass displays "west" !!
Like my friend John McCain says "we better declare war on them right now" !
The Norkies have successfully detonated several nukes. And they have more than one submarine.
In THEORY they could sneak into San Francisco bay and detonate a nuke. BUT - what would happen next ? Any Potus would nork the entirety of Norkia with something like 100 nukes.
Mr Kimmy is not that naive to pull this kind of nonsense shit.
He is just saying that Fatboy Kim sounds about as crazy as Richard Nixon or Donald Trump.
All three of them threatened to nuke some other nations, in a bid to get some political return. If you take it literally, that is quite scary. So you better think "barking dogs don't bite".
China has more money than Russia and they need Russia only for a few critical technologies. Certainly not for cyber recon, if all the reports are true.
China and Russia are scared of the US Imperium encircling them. Hundreds of foreign military bases. Lots of random, stupid wars started by the US. Destroying the peace in Arabia.
Of course they protect any ally they can, including North Korea. Plus this is a buffer zone against US occupied South Korea and surely they do not want to lose that buffer.
Apr. 24, Juche 107 (2018) Tuesday
U.S. Ideological and Cultural Poisoning Plays Leading Part for Aggression
The U.S. ideological and cultural poisoning is a vicious aggressive move to paralyze the sound ideological consciousness of the people and realize the regime change after all.
If one falls captive to the imperialist ideology and culture, one would be powerless though one has powerful military strength. This is a bitter lesson taught by history.
The reactionary ideological and cultural poisoning paved a way for aggression by the imperialists in the past, and it is now playing the leading role in aggression.
Any destroyed material wealth can be restored, but nothing can make up for the mental and moral ruin of human being or the ideological and cultural ruin of the nation.
The reactionary culture of the bourgeois is an ideological poisoning making the people morally degenerated but the socialist ideological culture an ideological and mental food totally favoring the independent requirements and creative activities of the popular masses.
The socialist ideological culture is a revolutionary ideology and culture that reflects the popular masses' beautiful dreams, ideal and noble and sound way of life and represents the justice and truth.
As long as there is the revolutionary socialist ideological culture correctly reflecting the independent requirements of the masses, the imperialists' reactionary ideological culture can never make infiltration.
To frustrate the imperialists' moves for ideological and cultural poisoning presents itself as an acute issue on which hinges the future of each country and nation.
Ri Hyo Jin