Posted on 12/03/2014 2:28:58 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Details Emerge on Malware Used in Sony Hacking Attack
December 2, 2014, 7:31 AM PST
By Arik Hesseldahl
New details have emerged about the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, the motion picture studio which last week came under a withering digital siege that investigators say may have originated from North Korea.
Late Monday the FBI issued a confidential five-page warning to U.S. businesses concerning malicious software, or malware, used to carry out destructive attacks. The warning did not name Sony as a victim of the malware, though it is said to be a direct response to the breach at that company.
The full text of the warning could not be obtained, but Re/code sources who have seen it shared some of the FBI’s observations:
One primary feature of the malware is that it wipes the hard drives of targeted systems. This is at minimum a strong indication of North Korean involvement. Previous attacks attributed to North Korea, including one last year against TV networks and banks in South Korea, have often included wiping software that destroys all data stored on the system.
The malware’s creator used the Korean language pack in Microsoft’s Windows. Perhaps another hint pointing in North Korea’s direction, but not definitive either. However, the software was written in such as way as to execute its functions without regard to the languages in use on the system being attacked.
The attackers apparently used compromised computers in Thailand, Italy and Poland to carry out the attacks. The FBI’s warning says these systems belonged to parties unrelated to the attackers or the victim.
(Excerpt) Read more at recode.net ...
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If you’re not securing your WMI channels, you deserve what you get. Protecting TCP 135 with IPSec to prevent connectivity from the get-go is critical in large infrastructures.
The Russians are being implicated in this as well as the Norks, and some inner-circle black hat folks suspect this could be a joint effort by Russians and Chicoms with the Norks acting as state parties.
Windows, Windows, Windows!
Why not become the first large company not to use any Microsoft products, and see what happens?
If this came out of North Korea it is a government Ordered attack.
That means that it was something that someone in power wanted done.
If they want it done resource would be directed to figure out how to do it. Every operating system has flaws. Those ordered to attack the company would do the necessary research to find an exploitable flaw.
FYI...
recode.net
(the site this story is on)
It’s a classic new world order backed/lead firm.
headed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
Kara is a Georgetown Foreign Service graduate (the starting point of a career working for new world order/CIA/State Dept/etc.).
The CIA’s NBCUniversal is a partner of Mossberg’s and Swisher’s holding company Revere Digital, LLC.
Mossberg is the powerful tech reporter from NWOS’s WSJ on tech for years, commonly referred to as a “kingmaker” in tech products.
I don’t know their family histories, which frequently have a great deal to do with new world order ties. Mysteriously google does not give up much on the personal backgrounds of these folks.
Swisher started as an intern at CIA’s Washington Post.
Kara Swisher was “married” to Megan Smith, the CTO of the United States in the Obama administration. Smith has been a VP at Google, has involvement with USAID, various homosexual activist organizations, sits on the board of MIT, etc.
Though now “separated”, Swisher and Smith are two peas in a pod, freakazoid new world order minions.
Was the malware called wipe or wiper?.
What Chia Chub don’t get Sony MOvie channel and Gettv in North Korea LOL!
They showing Caine Muinty on tonight at 7pm est
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