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I doubt anyone seriously believes NK could have manufactured the malware that was used. ...but it's plausible they may have paid other people to do it; or at l
by shadowmint 12y ago
I doubt anyone seriously believes NK could have manufactured the malware that was used.
...but it's plausible they may have paid other people to do it; or at least seed funded some third party (eg. russian hackers).
To be fair to the NSA; they're not retards.
Evil... maybe. But stupid? I don't think so.
If they (via the FBI) say it was NK, they probably have something to back that up (eg. intercepted communications or money trail that leads back to the NK).
Interesting point drops out of it though; I'd say it's pretty obvious the NK were never in control of the data or malware. If they paid for it, are they still to blame? Or are the people who actually did the hack to blame...?
- dba7dba 12y agoI doubt many 'hackers' manufacture the malware themselves these days. Many buy/copy from others. And we keep saying NK doesn't have enough capable human talent but they developed nukes and launched a mid range ballistic missile. Surely they can lock up some men in a building and teach how to run malwares? IF NK paid for it, they are responsible still.
- meowface 12y ago>I doubt anyone seriously believes NK could have manufactured the malware that was used. It's actually quite possible. The Shamoon/Destover family borrows a lot of code from commercial products, with some standard command & control functionality added. This is not Stuxnet style malware: Stuxnet was designed to spread perniciously and send precise commands to SCADA controllers; this malware is designed to wipe drives and capture basic information and files at the behest of an operator. Many groups could have made this malware, nation-state or otherwise, including NK.