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North Korean Hackers Are Now Developing iPhone Spy Tools (forbes.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Probing the bowels of what he believed to be North Korean hacking architecture, American cybersecurity researcher Darien Huss found an outlier: iPhone software. It appeared at first glance to be a fairly mundane program, a mobile device management (MDM) tool. Such apps are typically used for businesses to remotely monitor and control employees' phones. But, according to Huss, it's most likely one of, if not the only, example of North Korean spyware for Apple's smartphone.
It's unlikely the MDM app was anything other than malicious, said Huss, an employee of cybersecurity company Proofpoint. Tellingly, it was located on a server believed to contain other hacking tools, in particular those for Microsoft Windows, that he'd linked to one of the bigger North Korean hacking groups, the researcher explained to Forbes. If the iPhone tool is indeed a piece of spyware, Huss hasn't seen it used yet. He believes it's currently in development by that North Korean-linked hacker crew, though Proofpoint declined to provide additional details on his research.
It's unlikely the MDM app was anything other than malicious, said Huss, an employee of cybersecurity company Proofpoint. Tellingly, it was located on a server believed to contain other hacking tools, in particular those for Microsoft Windows, that he'd linked to one of the bigger North Korean hacking groups, the researcher explained to Forbes. If the iPhone tool is indeed a piece of spyware, Huss hasn't seen it used yet. He believes it's currently in development by that North Korean-linked hacker crew, though Proofpoint declined to provide additional details on his research.
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That's why they are giving up their nuke program. It's far cheaper and more effective to wage cyberwar on the US.
The Russians showed them that.
But coordinating that from Federal Prison will be difficult, even for a criminal mastermind like Drumpf.
So, Trump gets North and South Korea talking, and is the first president to really be on the path to getting North Korea to lose their nukes, and suddenly, we get msmash fear mongering about "North Korean haxors haxin yer iphone".
Every nation has a part of their intelligence community working on various hacks.
Funny how we only hear about the ones here on /. that help paint certain parties as a boogie man to be feared to make Trump look bad. At any cost, even if that cost is WWIII in the end.
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This isn't even news. It would be news if they _weren't_ making phone hacking tools. This is just more propaganda to lead up to a war. Right now it's pretty innocuous because it's just getting started, but if the media keeps falling in line behind the administration we're gonna have Iraq II: Electric Boogaloo.
They're doing the same thing with Iran, btw. Don't fall for it.
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because North Korea can hack and IPhone and they can't.
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They don't have the resources and talent to do these things, and if they did, why would they put the stuff readily available to the whole world on some internet-facing server?
NK aren't hacking anyone, they just don't have the resources. Stop spreading lies and misinformation.
All governments are developing or have developed iPhone hacking tools, including the North Korean government.
When a gov wants to diss another, they just release stuff like this, while not mentioning that every gov does the same, including themselves.
Anyone still remember them?
These stories came out whenever US wants to invade some country. Just like the flood of Apple stories before new iPhone launches every year.
North Korea is practically a third world country. That's what communism does. Look at Venezuela.
That's why all the fearmongering over NK up until the last couple of weeks was just neocon warmongering.
Is it really only North Korea, Russia and China that are able to hack, spy, and influence elections nowadays? That's the impression that I get from media.
Come on, USA, don't get left behind. You can do it too if you put your mind to it. And Europe - where's your spy-hacking skills? Outsorced?