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Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs
Oh, really? Got pissed off, so he just turned off the whole damn internet in North Korea? Nice work. Gotta make a note to myself not to get on this guy's bad side. Yikes. 😳☢️💻😅
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.
11:58 AM · Feb 4, 2022
Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs
Oh, really? Got pissed off, so he just turned off the whole damn internet in North Korea? Nice work. Gotta make a note to myself not to get on this guy's bad side. Yikes. 😳☢️💻😅
wired.com
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.
11:58 AM · Feb 4, 2022
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/
FOR THE PAST two weeks, observers of North Korea's strange and tightly restricted corner of the internet began to notice that the country seemed to be dealing with some serious connectivity problems. On several different days, practically all of its websitesthe notoriously isolated nation only has a few dozenintermittently dropped offline en masse, from the booking site for its Air Koryo airline to Naenara, a page that serves as the official portal for dictator Kim Jong-un's government. At least one of the central routers that allow access to the country's networks appeared at one point to be paralyzed, crippling the Hermit Kingdom's digital connections to the outside world.
Some North Korea watchers pointed out that the country had just carried out a series of missile tests, implying that a foreign government's hackers might have launched a cyberattack against the rogue state to tell it to stop saber-rattling.
But responsibility for North Korea's ongoing internet outages doesn't lie with US Cyber Command or any other state-sponsored hacking agency. In fact, it was the work of one American man in a T-shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, sitting in his living room night after night, watching Alien movies and eating spicy corn snacksand periodically walking over to his home office to check on the progress of the programs he was running to disrupt the internet of an entire country.
Just over a year ago, an independent hacker who goes by the handle P4x was himself hacked by North Korean spies. P4x was just one victim of a hacking campaign that targeted Western security researchers with the apparent aim of stealing their hacking tools and details about software vulnerabilities. He says he managed to prevent those hackers from swiping anything of value from him. But he nonetheless felt deeply unnerved by state-sponsored hackers targeting him personallyand by the lack of any visible response from the US government.
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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Hekate
(90,705 posts)2. Well done, P4x
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Dear NSA, please pay this guy anything he wants; just HIRE HIM!
Putin needs some of this guy's tender ministrations.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)5. Yep.
He might "listen" to this.
EYESORE 9001
(25,939 posts)4. Do Russia next
BComplex
(8,053 posts)6. YES!!!
Please!!!
UTUSN
(70,700 posts)7. Whew, so... Gone are the days when one dead archduke could start a world war...