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.

Comments

The Source

[phantomfive]

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.

Re:The Source

[iggymanz]

hilarious how the populace turns a blind eye to the government that sponsors the most terrorism, the most malware, the most regional destabilizing, the one that gives support to the world's cruelest dictators.....yes, that's the USA.

Re:CNN first to report fake news

[duke_cheetah2003]

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.

Re:Warmongers

[fermion]

I think the issue here is that the process was so non-traditional. No work was done before hand by the professionals diplomats that is common in most other negotiations.

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.

Don't worry

[quonset]

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.