North Korea Officially Denies Involvement in Sony Hack

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In an official statement, a spokesperson for the Policy Department of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of North Korea said that the government of the country did not orchestrate the attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).

The information came out on Sunday from the Korean Central News Agency of DRPK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and hinted that supporters of the party might be behind the incident.
DRPK salutes the initiative of the hackers
This stance from the Pyongyang has been reported before in the media by a spokesman for the country’s UN mission, but it was done under the shelter of anonymity.

“We do not know where in America the SONY Pictures is situated and for what wrongdoings it became the target of the attack nor we feel the need to know about it,” the statement from DRPK says.

To enforce the lack of involvement in the event, the communication says that the actual location of Sony Pictures in the US is unknown to North Korea and the government has no information about the actions of the company that irked the attackers, who call themselves Guardians of Peace (GoP).

Although North Korea distanced itself from the attack, it did not waste the opportunity to applaud the initiative of the hackers, calling it a “righteous deed.”

This is because the company refused to put a stop to the release of “The Interview” comedy, a movie about a couple of reporters in the US obtaining an interview with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and being asked by the CIA to assassinate him.

“SONY Pictures is the very one which was going to produce a film abetting a terrorist act while hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK by taking advantage of the hostile policy of the U.S. administration towards the DPRK,” the spokesperson said.

It was also added that North Korea became the target of US law enforcement bodies without any solid evidence regarding its involvement. More than this, DRPK blames South Korea for the false rumors regarding the North’s participation.
Korean resources have been found in the malware, though
However, security researchers analyzing the malware used in the Sony attack say they found a Korean language resource in one of the samples. When news about this broke, all eyes were obviously pointed at North Korea, since the South has always received the support of the US.

The Sony incident occurred on November 24 and resulted in wiping the information on the hard disks; it appears that before this attack, a large amount of confidential data had been already exfiltrated from the company’s systems, which was shared through file sharing websites in the past two weeks.
 

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