The Daily NK notes North Korea’s unusual silence following accusations of the July 4th cyberattacks:
Generally, whenever the South Korean government so much as mentions the word “North,” North Korea instantly produces a volley of aggressive claims about the possibility of military catastrophe. Pyongyang’s silence in the face of the NIS designation is somewhat unprecedented.
While certainly [...]
Three quick ROK/US updates from the weekend:
It appears that machines involved in the DDoS attacks from July 4th onward are beginning to self-destruct. Brian Krebs at WaPo has some good coverage.
Some more detailed reports (aka digital forensics) are beginning to trickle out from the machines involved in the botnet (at least before they go kaput). [...]
(*) This post is designed to stimulate debate, not make a definitive claim. The lost side of this debate, I contend this: absent any technical data, a North Korean cyberattack is actually less likely than most mainstream media and defense establishment presume.
The press loves a good villain, and so the story seems to make intuitive [...]
Google News points to 1400+ of 1500 July 4th Outage stories blaming the North as having planned and orchestrated the attack. Why? There’s no smoking gun…yet, if at all.
Tracing the history of this story, despite the lack of much technical grounding, an echo chamber seems to have emerged:
The American media is blaming Pyongyang, (which [...]
More insights [translated] are coming out from the Korean side on the virus behind the ongoing July 4th DDoS attacks, including a full target list, and partial dissection of the tools being used. There’s a lot more to that target list than meets the eye.
In a word, the targeting choice in the American and Korean [...]
Today’s AP Wire, New York Times, and Washington Post (itself a target) are carrying major stories about the high-profile website outages that began last weekend in Korea, and linking them to similar attacks that persist, among a number of US Government websites.
All this is a major story, (or at least Google News and 1,569 2055 stories on [...]
