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If this checks out, it's very surprising. I would assume they wouldn't have the skills for pulling out something so massive like this.
by pqdbr 9y ago
If this checks out, it's very surprising. I would assume they wouldn't have the skills for pulling out something so massive like this.
- openasocket 9y agoNot that suprising, remember that they also hacked Sony. The Lazarus group (one of the names for the DPRK APT group) is pretty sophisticated.
- carvalho 9y agoThe major concern for the US military when attacking North Korea was not nukes, but military hackers inside a bunker disrupting everything. There probably is a lot of know-how there. The Sony hack was also attributed to North Korea.
- booleandilemma 9y agoBasing your malware on a tool leaked from the NSA probably makes it easier. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
- ams6110 9y agoMaybe they contracted it out.
- DSMan195276 9y agoI donno, from a technical standpoint it never seemed to me like WannaCry was extremely complicated. I actually described a Ransomware with a very similar crypto scheme on here not that long ago [0], and I don't have tons of crypto experience past taking a class on it in college. With that said I'm sure there are other ransomwares out there that already do something very similar (or even the same). The more complicated part was the propagation via the exploit, but at the same time the exploit was already out in the open. That was part of the reason it only infected old or non-updated machines. So still not easy, but a good chunk of the initial work was done for them. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147605