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Slight tangent: How can Lazarus/HIDDEN COBRA be such a sophisticated nation state actor when North Koreans can barely access the internet until becoming governm
by Liquix 3y ago
Slight tangent: How can Lazarus/HIDDEN COBRA be such a sophisticated nation state actor when North Koreans can barely access the internet until becoming government employees?
One would think that being unable to access modern security research, open source projects, programming resources, or "wild" malware would not exactly raise a nation of brilliant hackers. Perhaps some who subvert the great firewall are vanned and offered a job in the unit?
- Almondsetat 3y ago>being unable to access modern security research, open source projects, programming resources, or "wild" malware how do you know they are unable to obtain such things? also, how do you think hackers are trained? by teaching them how to create a ToDo app with the nightly build of React? they probably know by heart the ethernet and TCP/IP stack better than the guys who created them and could recite it backwards, and that's already enough to hack plenty of things
- michaelt 3y ago> also, how do you think hackers are trained? I don't know, but I thought they started as "script kiddies" at about age 12 before growing into full size hackers. Which requires that tech be available widely enough that 12 year old kids can get unsupervised access to it.
- rcxdude 3y agoThat isn't mandatory. It's all stuff you can be taught later.
- carbotaniuman 3y agoI think (based on my limited research) it's either a loose affiliation (mainly based in China or Russia), or the children of party elites who likely have more privileges and access than thr average North Korean.
- slim 3y agothey arguably operate from china
- dist-epoch 3y agoMaybe they have a "gifted children" training program, where they give technically talented 7yo access to everything and grow them into hackers.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThe story I may have heard from a talk by a Dutch cyber security organisation is that they train their hackers inside the country and then ship them off (under heavy oversight, of course) to China, where they'll operate from internet cafes.
- dm319 3y agoThey recruit the best from school early on and their training is intense. It's a very desirable job in a country that has food, electricity and other shortages. Have a listen to the Lazarus Heist podcast for more information.