S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
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S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
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Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#2Do North Korea have the expertise to do such attack? It sounds to me more likely that supporters of North Korea did it (say groups inside China).
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#3Do North Korea have the expertise to do such attack? It sounds to me more likely that supporters of North Korea did it (say groups inside China).
If they don't, they still probably have some offshore funds which they can use to hire criminal groups to perform such attacks.
Anyway with current information one can only speculate on what just happened in Korea and who was behind it.
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#4Do North Korea have the expertise to do such attack? It sounds to me more likely that supporters of North Korea did it (say groups inside China).
An Outage is not difficult
If that's the maximum NK can do I wouldn't be worried
What would worry me is the old and insecure system South Korea uses (based on IE and ActiveX), that should be their biggest worry right now.
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#5Honest, slightly unrelevant question: does North Korea have access to the world wide web? And if so, who do they connect through?
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#6Honest, slightly unrelevant question: does North Korea have access to the world wide web? And if so, who do they connect through?
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#7Do North Korea have the expertise to do such attack? It sounds to me more likely that supporters of North Korea did it (say groups inside China).
From the Korea Herald:
"According to South Korean experts, Pyongyang’s electronic warfare capabilities are second only to Russia and the United States."
Not sure how accurate THAT statement is, but North Korea has waged electronic warfare multiple times in the past including jamming SK's GPS systems at one point. They probably have a fully capable electronics warfare unit.
Its also quite possible that China supplies the technology/know how to conduct such attacks and uses NK as a proxy to test systems as SK military procedures are somewhat related to the United States.
Also, South Korea has REALLY bad security. For example, if you want to use some form of online banking you must use an ActiveX control with IE.
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#8Do North Korea have the expertise to do such attack? It sounds to me more likely that supporters of North Korea did it (say groups inside China).
From the Korea Herald: "According to South Korean experts, Pyongyang’s electronic warfare capabilities are second only to Russia and the United States." Not sure how accurate THAT statement is, but North Korea has waged electronic warfare multiple times in the past including jamming SK's GPS systems at one point. They probably have a fully capable electronics warfare unit. Its also quite possible that China supplies…
"Also, South Korea has REALLY bad security. For example, if you want to use some form of online banking you must use an ActiveX control with IE."
I've heard about that, and that it's a major impediment to the adoption of new browsers, but I'm wondering how that gels with the (uncomfortable/awkward?) zeitgeist of Samsung.
I was under the impression that Japan went 'mobile first' years ago and their phones have been their touchpoint (no pun intended) to the internet from before the iPhone launched and that desktop PCs weren't a big thing.
Are SK residents using their Life Companions* tethered to a PC to do their day-to-day banking on a PC? Akin to iTunes?
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#9FWIW, i believe this was a hack involving their use of package management IPM (Isis Packagement Management): http://help.unc.edu/help/isis-package-manager-ipm/.
this is similar to ruby's package management hack earlier, but this time at a software level with ability to infect PC's/servers/etc...
Re: S. Korean Banks Fall Victim to Biggest Cyber Attack in Two Years
#10Bit confused..
"A possible cyber attack temporarily shut down computer networks" ... "Operations at the two banks were back to normal later in the afternoon and it was still unclear what caused the disruptions"
So it might have been a cyber attack. It might not.
"President Park Geun Hye’s administration created a cyber crisis headquarters to investigate whether North Korea is behind the outages"
I would have thought it would have been created to see if it actually was a cyber attack before assigning blame.
In the UK banking systems have failed repeatedly in recent months. The first thought isn't a cyber attack. The first thought is banks messed up.
I don't get why tensions would rise if currently they cannot even determine if it is a cyber attack or not.