-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-12-18 19:11, Noah Shachtman wrote: > One the one hand, I see US officials leaking word that the North > Koreans were involved... > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html > > On the other, I see evidence that points to a hacktivist-type > outfit... > > http://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-is-thin/ > > Any ideas on which narrative (or combination thereof) is right?
Both miss IMHO the point. This was clearly a politically motivated attack by a nation state intended to create the severest immediate impact possible on Sony. Hitting the technical, informational and soon the financial layer as well. Latter should be devastating because the first plaintiffs already turned up, class action suit. If you can translate German below is my story on the late return of harddisk swipers to the malware scene after vanishing in 1999. This is what Saudi Aramco Attacks 2012, the 2013 South Korea attacks and those on Sony have in common. Should be a all a matter of politics, what these idiots playing wargames in our civilian networks call "cyber" The attackers must have been long into Sony before. Mapped the entired network just as the NSA or GCHQ would do and then hit abruptly with a none too sophisticated exploit but one that worked. Exfiltrated data then swiped the disks, the file index alone is 1 GB text The Sony Data Dump Timebomb [German] http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1750840/ Just my 2 cents Gruesse aus Wien Erich > > Best, > > > > nms > - -- https://moechel.com/kontakt PGP KEY 0x2440DE65 fingerprint A564 1457 71C3 E907 6D78 429E 76F3 C66E 2440 DE65 - --... ...-- -.. . . .-. .. -.-. .... --- . ...-- . -- -... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUk1l+AAoJEHbzxm4kQN5lW04H/jlGTSrh23nFlkFiiFA6s1m7 O0KobQAMF+jlddFgZZtzc7FpMgzoQWmR6WMHfFZ3Gd5G8xYCpTsrtcykgSwoRdLZ jiPFCpVWkE1A8388XT5KF+TuIWjf1Go4VF6jmKlwAdBg5IdWPoCl5n6MTDisbjxs Of4ax0nDKOBbgHUiWwcJp0D3lcpQheEB0/2wVEXwNY7zor+BU2W9Pcjc4VvYanWs nxqJP/2EsZxXlCsJ1bTELUEP7icDG7j/ao8ZUzvK9eJWm7hR+66XpPJD6euzKkHM XoxfP0X+xAnE6i2Py1Ge1/+euZf+pUAp4i+ZKUg0h567drBLN05kjZ3dm4iPTg4= =kREt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
