Kim Jong-un is the butt of numerous jokes as is North Korea’s somewhat unreliable missile program. The North clearly doesn’t have this missile thing down just yet, although they are making progress. Making jokes and creating internet memes to send around might be fun, but if the rest of the world isn’t careful, it might wind up being Mr. Kim who is the one laughing — or at least very satisfied with himself.
This would especially be the case if it turned out that North Korea was the instigator of the recent and ongoing cyberattacks worldwide.
The WannaCry ransomware attack that wreaked havoc on computer systems around the world over the past few days may be the handiwork of North Korea, some early clues suggest.
Google security researcher Neel Mehta sent out a tweet Monday linking two samples of malicious code: One from an early version of WannaCry and the other from the Lazarus Group, a collection of cybercriminals reportedly affiliated with North Korea.
Lazarus launched an attack on the Bangladesh central bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from an IP address in North Korea, according to Kaspersky Lab. The hackers stole $81 million. Lazarus has been active for years, but it wasn’t until recently that researchers discovered a connection to North Korea. The Lazarus Group is also reportedly behind the infamous Sony hack, as well as a breach at a Polish bank.
While taking down computer systems and networks, and stealing millions of dollars is serious enough, the frightening possibility is that this ransomware attack could be used to hack our nuclear weapons’ launch codes, a terrifying thought if there ever was one.
What is striking is the number of well-known computer security firms that are commenting on this attack and potentially linking it with North Korea.
Kaspersky called Mehta’s discovery “the most significant clue to date regarding the origins of WannaCry.” Acknowledging that more research is required, the director of the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky Lab, Costin Raiu, told Forbes that Mehta “might have found the WannaCry Rosetta Stone.”
The code used in the ransomware attack is noticeably uncommon and has only been used by cybercriminals with ties to North Korea, reports the New York Times.
“At this time, all we have is a temporal link,” Eric Chien, a Symantec investigator told the Times. “We want to see more coding similarities to give us more confidence.”
Has Mr. Kim already attacked, just with incredibly malicious software rather than bombs? It’s more than just possible. After all, we are reminded that the art of war also includes the art of deception.
If he can get hold of nations’ nuclear weapons launch codes, then he just became an order of magnitude more dangerous.
In any event, turning loose malicious software on the world’s computer systems does give him something to occupy his time with as his military develops the science of creating and launching nuclear weapons of his own.
Source: The Libertarian Republic
reassigning to you
Don’t give a dog a demn bad name right?
TAKE HIM OUT!
Take the little doink out
Have we got a MOAB for you little man.
Probable sourse? Not a reason to go to war. Probable is like ; maybe, could be,perhaps , not a solid sourse.
NY Times or Huffington Post is not reliable for a source
My dear fellow humans,
As we can all with eyes see,and as we can all with ears hear,………this are the prophesied end times and only those with eyes that are blind can never take note.
Everyday we wakeup to rumours of war.
News of nations raising against other nations are everywhere, while brothers are, and plotting to raise against brothers.
The world is in chaos,as conflicts and terror gives world leaders sleepless nights.
Natural disasters eg earthquakes, tornadoes, flooding wild fires etc are happening on dairy basis around the world in the name of climate change,while droughts and famine are being experienced globally.
The world is never the same again and we are headed to the prophesied great tribulations.
The prophets prophesied about the coming of the Messiah the redeemer of sinners from sin,which fulfilled by his birth,crucification and resurrection from the dead,and now we the humans wait eagerly for his second coming .
My fellow humans,
We abandoned the ancient highway to eternal life long ago by taking man made diversion way.
The same agents of Lucifer who murdered the apostles tricked and fooled us to abandoned our ELOHIM’s Yeshua {salvation} and on the contrary made us take a diversion and embrace a man made/invented impostor with no any authority over what he is purported namely redemption from sin,and now to make the matter worse,we perfectly fit the descriptions of the end time generation of people with ears that don’t hear.
My dear fellow humans with ears that hear the voice of ELOHIM our ancestors GOD OF ISRAELI, hear this and break away from this doomed generation.
I repeat again and again, am talking to those with ears !
The world is never the same again as you knew it.
Dear fellow humans,its a fact that am just a ordinary human being who don’t even deserve your attention, neither your approval for that matter,and so,just take note.
Situations will turn from bad to worse.
Peace will be a thing of the past.
Many will come seeking refuge,
I have a “lead”filling in my wisdom tooth that picks up radio waves… Turns out it was aliens from outer space…