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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/asia/north-korea-hack-war-plans.html
North Korean hackers stole a vast cache of data, including classified wartime contingency plans jointly drawn by Washington and Seoul, when they breached the computer network of the South Korean military last year, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday.
One of the plans included the South Korean military's plan to remove the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, referred to as a "decapitation" plan, should war break out on the Korean Peninsula, the lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee, told reporters.
Mr. Rhee, a member of the governing Democratic Party who serves on the defense committee of the National Assembly, said he only recently learned of the scale of the North Korean hacking attack, which was first discovered in September last year.
It was not known whether any of the military's top secrets were leaked, although Mr. Rhee said that nearly 300 lower-classification confidential documents were stolen. The military is still unable to catalog nearly 80 percent of the 235 gigabytes of leaked data, he said.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday October 13 2017, @09:21PM (3 children)
Also from ABCNews [go.com]
I think this assumption that they are super hackers is probably misguided. The Norks had a great deal of help.
There routes to the internet all went through China, who is now rushing to close those feeds off. So the Russians stepped in and provided internet access. I believe the Russians play the North Koreans like a fiddle, and probably use their internet access to disavow their own hacking. They use the Norks like the US uses the British and Israelis and just as the US would rush to provide internet access to either of those countries if it was somehow interrupted.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @09:42PM (1 child)
No doubt the Ruskies are engaging the norks so as to gain a leverage against the US. It's a low-risk tactic - unlike China, Russia doesn't really care if Nork collapses since N. Korea isn't a buffer/neighboring state for Russia - the border shared between Russia and N Korea is tiny titbit at the river mouth, not much of border at all.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday October 13 2017, @10:33PM
Its an interesting border to trace.
About 500 feet from where the China border stops and the Russian border starts there is a rail bridge leading to a large coal fired plant in North Korea. There isn't any other bridge to Russia or China for over a 100 miles till you get to Yanbian, North Korea, where there is a very well controlled (at both ends) truck bridge. There are several bridges torn down.
The next rail bridge is on the Yalu, and its mostly used for trucks as well. Then the big show-piece highway bridge that carries almost zero traffic built by the Chinese. China shares more large dams with NK than they do bridges.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:52PM
One of the articles I read earlier said that USA/S.Korea stole the N.Korea war plans several years ago, so our cyber-warriors got there first. Sorry, it was yesterday, can't find the link now.