Privacy News North Korean Hackers Attacking 18-countries' Banks to Fund Nuke

[Ink]

.North Korea's mysterious Lazarus hacking operation has been blamed for several large international cyberattacks in recent years.
The hackers can be traced back to North Korea, according to Kaspersky researchers.

To hide their location, hackers typically launch cyberattacks from computer servers far from home. According to Kaspersky, the Lazarus hackers carefully routed their signal through France, South Korea and Taiwan to setup that attack server. But there was apparently one mistake spotted by Kaspersky: A connection that briefly came from North Korea.

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[Fabiola Oliveros]

Interesting new. If behind this attacks was the north Korea government involved, I think the world must to be more awareness of the Security IT importance. They must to have a cyber army.

 

[cruelsister]

Quid pro Quo (liberated from http://nypost.com/2017/04/16/ex-british-foreign-minister-thinks-us-hacked-north-korea-missile/

A former British foreign minister said on Sunday he has a theory why a North Korea missile exploded seconds after launch – a US cyber attack downed it.
“It could have failed because the system is not competent enough to make it work, but there is a very strong belief that the US – through cyber methods – has been successful on several occasions in interrupting these sorts of tests and making them fail,” Malcolm Rifkind told the BBC.

The repressive regime of Kim Jong-un tested a non-nuclear weapon on Sunday but it exploded almost immediately. It came a day after North Korea, in an annual show of force, paraded missiles and rocket launchers through the streets of Pyongyang to mark the 105th birthday of Kim Il-sung, the country’s founder. Sen. John McCain, asked during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” about sabotage thwarting the launch, cautiously dismissed the claim. “I don’t,” the Arizona Republican said.

Questioned if the US has that capability, McCain said. ” I don’t think so, but I wouldn’t rule it out.” In 2014, former President Obama directed Pentagon officials to develop plans to develop possible cyber and electronic attacks against North Korea’s missile program. Not long after, North Korean missiles begun veering off course and exploding shortly after takeoff, the New York Times reported. President Trump would have inherited that program.

But Rifkind also warned, “don’t get too excited … they’ve also had quite a lot of successful tests.They are an advanced country when it comes to their nuclear weapons program. That still remains a fact – a hard fact,” he said. An intelligence adviser accompanying Vice President Pence on his visit to South Korea, part of a 10-day tour of Asia, said the test wasn’t a surprise. “We had good intelligence before the launch and good intelligence after the launch,” the adviser told reporters on condition of anonymity,” the adviser said.