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US Government Finds New Malware From North Korea (engadget.com)
Days after the historic North Korea-United States summit, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on Thursday warning of a new variant of North Korean malware to look out for. Called Typeframe, the malware is able to download and install additional malware, proxies and trojans; modify firewalls; and connect to servers for additional instructions. Engadget reports: Since last May, the DHS has issued a slew of alerts and reports about North Korea's malicious cyber activity. The department also pointed out that North Korea has been hacking countries around the world since 2009. And of course, don't forget that the U.S. also labeled that country as the source of Wannacry cyberattack, which notably held data from the UK's National Health Service hostage, and wreaked havoc across Russia and Ukraine. CNN was first to report the news.
I want to point out that WannaCry was built on an exploit from the NSA (The ShadowBrokers leak). If the NSA had spent half as much time defending the internet as they do attacking it, then WannaCry never would have happened. Furthermore if admins had been up on their patches, they wouldn't have been hit by the attack. Finally, if admins had been doing proper backups, they wouldn't have needed to pay to get it unlocked.
So there are multiple layers of fuckup in WannaCry.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Saying that the malware is from NK does not mean that NK's government had anything to do with it.
I'm sure that there have been more than a few instances of malware that started their life in the USA as well.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
malware by the deep state, it's a sabotage.
Linux? iOS? Android? Solaris? BSD? give us a clue...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Convenient timing by any means.
I don't know what CNN you watch, but the one that I watch has only talked about Anthony Bourdain lately. I think Trump probably had him killed because he knew that would get the spotlight away from him for a while.
Imagine THAT! CNN trying to provoke a war to defeat peace so they can get a dig in at the president.
Just so we're crystal clear, CNN reported on a DHS alert. So yeah. There's that.
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“The lengths the deep state will go to try and distract and disrupt the historic achievements of this president are truly amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a president so disrespected. The constant need to tear down everything he does is just, well, amazing.”
I'm not a fan of Trump, but I do believe you're right that 'reports' such as the above and other such activities, are part of a strategy by the deep state to depose a sitting President, a palace coup in all but name.
Vault 8 the CIA's Malware Control System.
Unbelievable.
Your narrative isn't based on reality.
Whatever your problem is, here's the fix:
1. Stop watching cable news channels. CNN is sensationalized shit and Fox just makes shit up. Read AP and Reuters news feeds for news. Any issue that's important to you, go to primary sources for the truth.
2. Realize that Un played Trump like a chump. In a couple more years, another NK nuke and missile will show up that they were developing secretly.
3. Both sides are not equally bad. Remember, reality has a liberal bias.
4. There is NO such thing as "Liberal Media" in the USA. All of it - including NPR - is right leaning.
5. We're coming off a top of the business cycle. A recession is coming and it has about as much to do with Trump as the current low unemployment and stagnant wages - meaning nothing.
6. All of our current wars the the fault of the Republicans. Period. They led us down this road. I don't give a shit who voted for what. The Republicans bullied us down this road.
7. We are in a perpetual state of war. Meaning, it will never end until the USA ceases to exist as it is.
8. These wars will make us go bust.
9. Abortion, gun rights and gay marriage are all distraction issues and voting on those and those alone means one is the problem with our politics in this country.
10. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower would be considered Liberal Democrats in this day and age.
11. The Republicans have jumped on the crazy train and they cannot govern this country as they have proved since 2001.
And in the mean time, in the magical land of NK, Elfs and Orcs and unicorns live side by side, peacefully in harmony under the watchful eye of the supreme leader. Laa-di-daa! and everywhere people are smiling and having fun. And LOOK! It's the world famous chocolate stream pouring out of that gigantic supreme leader statue's arse! Laaa-di-daa-di-daa!
No real agreement was made, other than the US conceding the right to conduct military exercises as it wishes. On the other hand, evidently, NK is still free to do whatever it wishes, including cyber attacks on the US, which is increasingly considered an act of war.
This is not the 'Obama apology tour' in which there are multiple legitimate interpretations. This is pure accommodation of terrorist who brutally murders his people by a sitting US President. There is no way to put lipstick on this pig.
Yes, we need to do everything we can to protect the world. Yes, sometimes that is not ideal, as in the treaty we had with Iran which was far from as effective as we wanted it to be, but still effective as a starting point. Sometimes we do need to kick ass, as every sitting president has done.
Now, we could say that we should give Trump credit for being innovative, i.e. bringing a real estate video to a brutal and murderous dictator. If it would have worked, if we would have gotten a real commitment to eliminate the nuclear capability of NK, or at least if Trump would have gotten his hotels on the peninsula, then we would have all been cheering. But being a leader means one has to take responsibility for one's failures as well as aculades for the successes.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
I'm sure Lemon will turn it into something Anti-Trump.
Let them starve; their nukes won't matter.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/health/north-korea-defector-parasites-health/index.html
If you think everyone is not 'liberal' enough, I'm pretty sure you're the whacko. If everyone in the world seems insane but you, the more likely scenario is that you're insane.
CNN is trying to find anything they can. Of course there is malware available. We've been in an undeclared war for many decades.
Russia and North Korea are bad because they attack us, you fucking traitor.
from the singapore psycho* summit?
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*trump, jong-un, and rodman
As someone who works in the cyber industry; guess what. I want proof. If you have PROOF that NK actually has functioning internet to do this then I'll believe you. But they DONT. Most if not all their computers are Red Star OS; I find it HARD TO BELIEVE that they have the tools necessary to even get hack tools like debuggers, etc for Windows.
What I'm saying is, prove it; it should not be hard to release a list of fucking IPs that report which C&C is in use.
Then again, if they were releasing "new malware" they most likely using tor2web and YOU CANNOT KNOW anyways. So fuck off DHS; you guys cannot even keep your own network secure let alone warning about foreign security threats.
Tell that to christfags who are pretty insane by all measures. There is something about praying that takes a special case of stupid; or, if you prefer; insanity.
Even adults have imaginary friends.
One of the first steps to achieving tyranny is to attack and discredit the free press, especially the free press that publishes bad things about you.
Trump has done an excellent job at that, as is shown by the generalized anti-CNN sentiment expressed here on a daily basis.
It helps when you have an uneducated, gullible fan base that will take at face value every single tweet you publish.
"I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and I still wouldn't lose any voters."
Yep, that pretty much sums up the character of Trump supporters.
Wannacry is based on an exploit called EternalBlue developed by the NSA. That North Koreas may have picked up a copy and re-targeted it demonstrates the threat of unchecked proliferation of such weapons by irresponsible organizations.
Have gnu, will travel.
I'm sorry, but I cannot respect any of the arguments about cyber attacks being an act of war.
Anyone and his dog can do a cyber attack and there are so many ways to go about it. It's not in any way special. Other than attacks on power plants (which shouldn't be online) and hospitals (which should have far better security but are using shitty software and putting it online out of laziness) the rest of it mostly just requires OS restores in worst case scenarios.
Further, it's far too easy for people in various country intels, including our own, to perform an attack and call it North Korea. Given that they've lied to us so many times in the past, I assign a negative value to their statements.
The con artist will defend this malware, just like he defended North Korea's brutal regime and its dictator, or the way he defends Putin and Russia's deliberate bombing of hospitals and civilians in Syria.
He'll probably even apologize for this malware simply because he admires dictators.
Don Lemon now seems pro-nuclear proliferation since he's against attempts to stop it.
Could you imagine the media being against reuniting Germany? The media has gone completely off the rails in their attacks on reuniting Korea.
Yet, here it is, on Slashdot's(of all places!) front page as if it is fact. You people are no better than the Guardian or the Post! Pure war mongering propaganda, just like Iraq and Afghanistan. Murdoch made Hearst look like a choirboy!
OK, first of all, it's not "North Korea" and "Russia" that are the threat, it's the regimes governing North Korea and Russia. I don't know any North Koreans, but all the Russian people I know are fine people. I have no problem with them.
1) Why the Kim regime is a threat: Kims regularly have their political enemies murdered (including family members) including one who was strapped to an anti-aircraft gun and vaporized.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
2) Why the Putin regime is a threat: He regularly has his political enemies murdered, sometimes via terrorist attacks on Western countries. He also used state intelligence machinery to attack elections in the United States, the UK, and the Ukraine, and in the case of the US colluded with criminals to throw the 2016 presidential election to a mobster.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
You are welcome on my lawn.
No real agreement was made, other than the US conceding the right to conduct military exercises as it wishes. On the other hand, evidently, NK is still free to do whatever it wishes, including cyber attacks on the US, which is increasingly considered an act of war.
Neither side made a firm commitment, and termination of operations with SK is contingent upon NK stopping nuclear testing. If they continue testing, Trump will ratchet up his blathering from 10 to 11 and explain that due to NK failing to keep its commitment to him (personally) that we have never been closer to recommencement of hostilities.
Not a Trump fan, but this is the one thing Trump might actually be able to do. Or, you know, he might just plunge us into WWIII, but I don't think so. I think not-so-lil'-Kim is smarter than that. That's one thing Trump has right. He might be an asshole, but he's a successful asshole.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The only reason the Kim regime is a credible military threat is nukes. NK hasn't been projecting military power into other nations. What dictators do to their own people has little effect on our people. Russia, on the other hand...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Rush Limbaugh has been criticizing media bias since the 80s. The difference is that Trump is now doing the same..... Those right wing radio hosts probably know more about politics than Trump.
What we need to do is just blow NK to bits. Put 3 carrier groups offshore and just blow up every single bridge, railroad center, missile site, power plant, factory, and all other signs of modern infrastructure until it's been bombed back to the stone age. This should make CNN happy because they're doing every single thing in their power to try and make it happen.
That's why you need international experts and negotiators rather than some orange blimp needing some propaganda display to offset his twitlering treatment of allies who refuse to act like serfs.
The world doesn't want to be "protected" by USA. The fact is that in every instance where america has meddled in another country's internal affairs things have been left more screwed up. If "every sitting president has...kicked ass" then you are doing it wrong. American would be doing the world a big favour if it just minded its own business and worked on getting its own house in order.
You need to learn what "liberal" actually means.
OK, asshole? The only "whacko"s are conservatives whose beliefs and values are not based in reality.
ALL of their positions are wrong because they are not based on reality.
No one needs to tear down his failures
We DO have to expose them though, since the MSM refuses to do its job
He also used state intelligence machinery to attack elections in the United States
Proof delivered, via 4 guilty verdicts and one plea.
So just like obama?
Proof? None
Just after I take a dump there's this crap in the news? Both are crap? Eerie crap connection? I'm sure CNN thinks so.
> I find it HARD TO BELIEVE that they have the tools necessary to even get hack tools like debuggers, etc
So your theory is that a company which can build nukes can't download these debuggers from Microsoft?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Are they also unable to download https://x64dbg.com/
And all of these?
https://www.concise-courses.co...
> As someone who works in the cyber industry;
Vernon? There's a reason we fired you.
That should of course say "country", not "company".
That sounds like Assad randomly deciding to gas his own people just as he's about to win the Syrian conflict and US troops are withdrawing. But governement fanboys will again rationalize this by saying that surely we're giving them too much credit.
Was this one included in the USB fans given to reporters during the NK - US summit? ;) :D
North Korea isn't the United States. Internet access isn't even available to private citizens. It used only for government purposes.
Foreign guests such as diplomats are of course often granted access to use the North Korean internet to communicate with their home countries. Which falls under the "government purposes" category, because it's not done for the convenience of the foreigners.
North Korea is also a place where merely disagreeing with Dear Leader will get you publicly executed. Nobody in NK is secretly installing backbone cables out of NK to secretly attack the US and Western Europe without permission from the government. If you're going to risk your life illegally accessing the internet, you don't do it for that purpose.
There are criminal hackers in RUSSIA, so when attacks come from Russia we have to try to figure out whether they are state-sponsored or not. Often, is it easy to know, hard to prove. North Korea is nothing like Russia, though. Attacks from North Korea, and generally any packets from North Korea, come from the government network, as part of government operations.
I don't think I've ever seen a president so disrespected.
Well, I have definitely never seen the office of the President of the United States so disrespected. So I think jabbing at Trump is completely justified.
He is making mockery of all of us, and our nation. He's making us all look like him. He's disrespectful to other world leaders (except dictators! weird?) He is disgracing the office of the President and our entire nation.
So in turn, everyone who can, makes a mockery of Trump, in the media, in print, on the web, YouTube, SNL, late night comedy, stand up, everywhere Trump is the punchline of every joke. Because he is a joke. Alas, he is not funny by any stretch.
CNN trying to provoke a war to defeat peace so they can get a dig in at the president.
Occam's razor: No need to provoke a war to get a dig at the president, he offers himself up to that voluntarily daily.
Don Lemon now seems pro-nuclear proliferation
Anything Trump does is axiomatically wrong, dangerous, racist, sexist, will sterilize the planet, and must be stridently - even hysterically - opposed.
All political opinions derive from that one essential principle.
the vault 7 releases all pretty much show that the CIA can make it look like a it came from anywhere they want
This got modded up? Let's be clear: both CNN and the deep state inside the DHS want war with North Korea. They're both trying to undermine the President's efforts at peace. They both hate the President and are inventing any excuse they can to discredit him. This isn't hard to understand.
War would be good for ratings but I'm not sure that the CNN people want war so much as they'd be willing to accept a war to get rid of Trump. The 7th Floor always wants a new war and would be glad to be rid of Trump, so you're good there.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
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Also noteworthy: they keep up 'the attack alarms' on a weekly basis. They are certain that the press plays along, apparently. Still, you have to be stupid to believe that load of horseshit...
“The lengths the deep state will go to try and distract and disrupt the historic achievements of this president are truly amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a president so disrespected. The constant need to tear down everything he does is just, well, amazing.”
Your memory isn't very long if you agree with this.
The criticism against Trump is way more grounded than that against Obama. (Mustard eating Kenyan Muslim doing terrorist fistjabs in his tan suit anyone?)
Heck, Trump was pushing the whole birther crap too.
The lengths the deep state will go to try and distract and disrupt the historic acheivements of this president are truly amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a president so disrespected. The constant need to tear down everything he does is just, well, amazing.
Hey look, someone else who seems to have been asleep from 2008 to 2016.
Well, he is the only person on the planet that is more corrupt than Hillary. So, there's that.
You, I guess? Because 2009-2016 (remember, 2008 was President Bush's last year) saw nothing but fawning praise for the man who then occupied the White House, to the point where a lot of policies that are condemned under President Trump were praised when Obama started them.
Right...
The MSM (news and television, movies, etc.) and European media absolutely drooled and fawned over BHO (and his wife) for 8 whole years. The only criticism he ever got was from Fox News (where all he got was criticism, actually) but which was a drop in the ocean compared to the MSM.
Obama even got a Nobel prize just for getting elected. You could never criticize anything he said or did, else his army of sycophants deemed you "racist" and then ostracized you, and even today this cult of Obama claim there were no scandals despite the fact that were at least a dozen during his administration.
And now those same sycophants are projecting their own behaviors, as a negative, onto all Trump supporters, many of whom actually do exhibit the same cultish traits without the projection. In that sense, the two parallel each other: cultish following, huge egos.
It really is the Cult of Personality these days.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
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Also noteworthy: they keep up 'the attack alarms' on a weekly basis. They are certain that the press plays along, apparently. Still, you have to be stupid to believe that load of horseshit...
The mainstream media has forgotten the story about the boy who cried wolf one too many times.
Recent FBI report and admission that Trump's campaign was being monitored. https://www.nationalreview.com...
To me, it looks like they are playing along willingly.
lol national review... they're worse than quoting Fox for "facts"
your "clarity" is idiocy pal, you know nothing of either CNN or this bullshit "deep state" retard theory
You're either an idiot, a damn fool, or both.
Everyone was super careful not to criticize the first black president. Not me. I tried waving the red flags for eight years because HE WAS A TERRIBLE SENATOR AS WELL.
Hopefully he'll just be an inkspot in history and his legacy whitewashed away. He deserves every bit of disdain for bringing us closer to a third world continent like his ancestors came from.
Like I said, proof none.
If you think that the FBI was required to NOT watch contacts between Trumpistas and the Russians, you truly believe in a man above the law!
They're both trying to undermine the President's efforts at peace. They both hate the President and are inventing any excuse they can to discredit him. This isn't hard to understand.
Last time I checked, the majority of Americans hate Trump. Passionately. Kinda reflects in the government. Our government is of the people, by the people, and surprise surprise, THE PEOPLE fucking hate Trump.
You don't get to be probably the most hated man in America by not stepping on some toes and pissing off people along the way. It's no surprise that the MAJORITY of this country is hell bent on persecuting this POTUS. I can think of no one more deserving. He wanted the spot light on him. He's getting more than he bargained for.
It's just hilariously amusing when people like this guy I quoted spew forth Apple fanboi levels of love and idolage for Mr. Trump. Everything bad said about this man is some conspiracy by the left, every single thing! The left is responsible for everything wrong with Trump. That's just irrational. Which describes Trump's supporters perfectly. Irrational.