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Living up to your screen name I see, but in all seriousness, I fully agree. The average person running the laptops in a spare bedroom may have no idea the scope
by fuzzzerd 1y ago
Living up to your screen name I see, but in all seriousness, I fully agree. The average person running the laptops in a spare bedroom may have no idea the scope of what they're involved with. Especially if they're being duped as well.
Imagine a non technical person being told they're helping run an "edge data center, close to the users. Running our laptops helps Netflix/facebook/etc (insert big tech name of your choice) run faster for you and your neighbors and well pay you to do it."
Easy to imagine a non technical person buying that lie.
- alganet 1y agoI'm having a hard time understanding your imagined scenario. Can you please explain it better?
- fuzzzerd 1y agoNK "fake employee" finds a non technical American to run their laptop farm by lying to them that running these laptops is helping make their access to some service faster.
- alganet 1y agoSounds very convoluted. I'm sure many, many countries have botnets. I have a bunch of those countries which I consider irresponsible and wreckless in my radar, not only north korea.
- NitpickLawyer 1y agoThese aren't botnets in the traditional sense. These operations need a US-based laptop (they receive it by mail, from the "target" corporation upon employment) and they also need the mini-kvm device to be plugged in. Then the remote agents connect via that kvm, to make detection harder. To an enterprise IDS/IPS the laptop seems connected from a residential, US IP address (expected). They've already arrested some people involved in this, they have devices as evidence. It's pretty well documented at this point.
- alganet 1y agoPlease, share the well documented evidence (media articles won't do).