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Security researchers find easy to exploit vulnerability. North Korea is one of those countries whose governments pushed for the migration to a domestically-developed operating system that’s supposed to be more secure than foreign software, such as Microsoft’s own Windows, which they claim can always include backdoors and malicious code. This is how North Korea ended […]
Origin-Based Games Blocked by Electronic Arts (EA) in Myanmar — Five other Countries are already blocked including Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria and Ukraine. If you are in Myanmar and can’t access Origin-based games then it’s not some DDoS attack on Electonic Arts servers, it’s just that the company has blocked origin games in your country. […]
North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday. South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by the North after Pyongyang […]
South Korea had its Air Force website hacked — While the investigations are underway some consider North Korea as the culprit! The official website of South Korean Air Force (airforce.mil.kr) was shut down for two weeks after a massive cyber attack hit its server. On 12th May 2016, the air force website was found infected with a […]
Is the North Korea behind the hack of a South Korean defense contractor? The officials announced an investigation into the security incident. There is a constant tension between South Korea and the North, now the Government of Seoul is accusing Pyongyang for a cyber attack that in April last hit a navy defence contractor, the […]
Short Bytes: Jaku Botnet discriminates while targeting its victims in the wild. It is easier to download from the famous sources like images or Torrents — thanks to the unforced human errors — and once installed, it grips that computer and makes that a part of the Botnet network. The Botnet Jaku, named after a planet […]
A group of hackers famously known as New World Hackers (NWH) is claiming to attack a number of state websites in North Korea. The group is associated with the infamous hacktivists collective Anonymous and the cyber attack seems to be prompted by the recent satellite launch from North Korea. NWH shut down three websites merely […]
North Korea’s homegrown computer operating system mirrors its political one – marked by a high degree of paranoia and invasive snooping on users, according to two German researchers. Their investigation, the deepest yet into the country’s Red Star OS, illustrates the challenges Pyongyang faces in trying to embrace the benefits of computing and the internet […]
North Korea is known as an authoritarian state but researchers have found their technological systems to be following the same path. Researchers have scrutinized the Linux distribution, Red Star OS, in North Korea and found it to be very restrictive. Previously, the operating system was found to be watermarking all the files on the USB […]
Short Bytes: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un claimed that they’ve been successful in developing a Hydrogen Bomb while he visited a military facility in Pyongyang. This news has made a worldwide impact, as it acts as a potential threat to their long time southern rival and the neighbouring nations. North Korea has been in the […]
The Subway system at the heart of Seoul, South Korea was hacked in 2014 and a local lawmaker claims that the culprit was North Korea. Ha Tae-keung, a lawmaker from the Saenuri Party revealed that the breach took place between March and August last year in which hackers were able to access 213 computers at […]
Short Bytes: According to the security firm FireEye, Hangul Word Processor program used by the South Korean government was recently hacked by North Korean hackers. This backdoor called HANGMAN was able to steal the documents and upload them to a C&C server. The word processor program called Hangul Word Processor is one of the most used […]
Hackers linked to known North Korean attack points and methods exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Hangul Word Processor (HWP), widely deployed in the offices of the South Korean government. According to research at cyber-security firm FireEye, the attackers used a known vulnerability (CVE-2015-6585), which was then patched on Monday, September 7. The attack relied […]
The famous international, non-profit, journalistic organisation WikiLeaks published thousands of hacked Sony Emails. You can now access, read and search all the hacked documents — Sony is not happy about it. On Thursday, WikiLeaks published 170,000 emails and 30,000 documents belonging to Sony Pictures, acquired from world-renowned hack where North Korea was blamed for breaching Sony […]
The Glorious Leader game which lets you control North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been hacked, according to its developers. The game was first announced in May 2014 and moved to Kickstarter�just last month in the hopes of getting the funding it needed to finish it. The creators, Moneyhorse Games, pulled it a week […]
FBI Director James Comey publicly said that the North Korean hackers who recently attackedSony Entertainment Pictures got sloppy since they actually used IP addresses that could be traced to North Korea. This statement which implicates the North Korean nation is the one of the most direct links the FBI has made in relation to the […]
The NGOs working for human rights have found something shocking in North Korea. They have found a network of prison camps along the North Korea’s countryside and are believed to have more than 200,000 people who were deemed to be hostile for the regime. The NGOs are pressuring United Nation’s commissioner hard to open an […]