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According to Symantec, A North Korean hacking group called Lazarus may be responsible for recent cyber attacks on the banking sector.
A North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus was likely behind a recent cyber campaign targeting organizations in 31 countries, following high-profile attacks on Bangladesh Bank, Sony and South Korea, cyber security firm Symantec Corp said on Wednesday.
Symantec said in a blog that researchers have uncovered four pieces of digital evidence suggesting the Lazarus group was behind the campaign that sought to infect victims with "loader" software used to stage attacks by installing other malicious programs.
"We are reasonably certain" Lazarus was responsible, Symantec researcher Eric Chien said in an interview.
The North Korean government has denied allegations it was involved in the hacks, which were made by officials in Washington and Seoul, as well as security firms.
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives could not immediately be reached for comment.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:56PM
I haven't studied Voodoo, but the “true name” thing is common in magical thinking. I'd have to give that Dummy's Guide to Paganism I inherited from a roommate a flip-through to remember if that's a feature of Wicca in general. (I want to say it is, but it's been a long time since I reviewed the instructions for various spells such as which gemstones and candles to include and which appellations to the primordial energy of the universe are involved.)
Two places the “true name” archetype has shown up in modern culture come to mind.
First up are sovereign citizens.
This is expressed in two separate ways. First, the sovereign citizen believes that if her name is written in ALL CAPS, that version of the name belongs to a separate legal entity from her own “true” self. Thus, when the all caps version of the name is written, it has no power over her.
Second, the sovereign citizen also believes that if she says that she is a “citizen of the United States” or similar (e.g. “citizen of the Several States” &c) that she has a different legal status than being a “United States citizen.” In that sense, knowing one's own true name grants oneself hidden power.
The second example that came up recently is religious extremism. A reason to know a thing's true name is to gain power over it. For example, we may be concerned about “terrorists” or “radical groups.” However, that is not the thing's “true name.” As it turned out, the thing's “true name” recently was revealed to be “Islamic terror” (iirc—correct me if the wording was different because wording is important in true names as we saw with sovereign citizens).
That reveals another facet. The inability of a person to call an evil by its true name may indicate that he is in league with that evil. See Obama's apparent inability utter the true name of the enemy.