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: 2) by VLM on Tuesday March 21 2017, @01:50PM (4 children)
four pieces of digital evidence
I bet its fake. How does that work?
Its very witchcraft "true name" voodoo thinking. Just possessing a copy of a string "Um you know that VLM guy on SN? He didn't do it, we're actually all NK" or "this source code comment is a placeholder while I finish eating my cooked dog for dinner because nobody would ever get that culinary reference to best Korea" merely possessing a string of bytes usually proves nothing.
Given that its fake, who benefits from blaming best Korea? That's a much more interesting discussion. I guess you could look at the usual suspects propagandizing against best Korea to predict who's saying todays talking points, but this specific point seems lame.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:01PM (2 children)
four pieces of digital evidence
I bet its fake. How does that work?
Let's go to the Symantec blog article [symantec.com] and see what they claim.
At a glance, it appears that the code in the current attacks was related to said older attacks on "Bangladesh Bank, Sony and South Korea" via "distinctive code" common to both, which in turn is linked to said group Lazarus. The attacks frequently attack foes of North Korea and the FBI has claimed North Korea was behind some of the attacks. It might not be sufficient evidence to convince you, VLM, but it is a chain of evidence.
(Score: 3, Touché) by VLM on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:24PM (1 child)
via "distinctive code" common to both
Hmm everyone who cracks copy protection or roots an appliance is actually the same guy.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 24 2017, @10:05AM
Hmm everyone who cracks copy protection or roots an appliance is actually the same guy.
Read the article. Supposedly there's a pattern to that - not merely doing the same task.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @02:19PM (1 child)
Grab them by the cyber! Cyber!
A cyber North Korean cyber hacking group known as Cyber Lazarus was likely behind a recent cyber campaign cyber targeting cyber organizations in 31 cyber countries, following high-profile cyber attacks on cyber Bangladesh Bank, cyber Sony and cyber South Korea, cyber cyber security cyber firm Symantec Cyber Corp said on Cyber Wednesday.
Needs more cyber!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @02:52PM
asl?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @02:40PM (2 children)
At least that's what the Trump people are saying . . .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:36PM (1 child)
It wasn't Obama either to wiretap Trump, it was NK in fact.
At least that's what I'm saying.
(grin)
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 21 2017, @06:15PM
And NK hackers changed the audio on that bus tape, when he was telling his friend about Korean vendors running by "you can grab them, buy the Kimchi".