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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."
Linux? iOS? Android? Solaris? BSD? give us a clue...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
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.
Maybe. However most NK citizens don't have access to the internet, just the state intranet. Internet access requires special authorization.
Sure someone could get authorization, or find a hole in the security and release the malware, but since access requires government authorization the most obvious explanation is that it came from the government (or government supported).
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
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.
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.
Anonymous Coward "One of the first steps to achieving tyranny is to attack and discredit the free press"
'the CIA task force “now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation,”'
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.
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.'"
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
> 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".
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.
Great source! The also say that ET stopped the US from setting a nuke off on the Moon", some excellent advise filed under "Health" about David Icke and Reptians, and even this article which is basically several paragraphs off Wikipedia.
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)
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.
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.
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.