How North Korean Hacking Actually Works | The WannaCry Attack

This video explores the ransomware "Wannacry", reportedly launched by North Korea on the UK's National Health Service.

Thanks to Patrick from Name Explain for lending his voice for the tweets:

For commercial use of AP archive and MovieTone

★ NOTE ON SOURCING IN CAPTIONS▼▼▼▼▼▼▼

I've added a citation system into my closed captioning. In order to be respectful to the hard of hearing members of this community, I've tried to make this as non-intrusive as possible., so as not to distract from reading.

At the end of a sentence with sourcing, something like this will appear:
"The sky is blue. The ocean is blue (17,89)."
In this example, the 1st number represents the source # from the source list in the description.
The 2nd number represents the page number, if the source is a book.

1. Der retuschierte Onkel, 09.12.2013, Der Spiegel
2. Times of London November 8, 2008
3. Kim Jong Un Declared To Be 'Supreme Leader' Of North Korea, December 29, 2011. NPR
4. How cyber-attack is disrupting NHS. 12 May 17. BBC live updates
5. “Irish firms increase cyber security after WannaCry attack” Independent . ie 08.08.17
6. “Massive ransomware infection hits computers in 99 countries” 13 May 2017 BBC
7. “WannaCry ransomware: Everything you need to know” 05.19.17 CNET
8. “WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack 'may have N Korea link'” BBC 16 May 17
9. “North Korean hackers might be behind the global WannaCry ransomware attack” 05.16.17
10. Global Insurance Fraud By North Korea Outlined. WaPo 06.18.09 Blaine Harden
11. “Criminal Sovereignty…”. March 2010. Strategic Studies Institute. Kan, Bechtol, Collins
12. “New U.S. Sanctions Aim at North Korean Elite” 8.30.10 Mark Lander NYTimes
13. “Defector reveals secrets of North Korea's Office 39, raising cash for Kim Jong-un” ABC Au 1.5.18. Matthew Carney
14. “Inside North Korea's Room 39” Express London 22 July 17
15. “Report: NKorea fires director of Kim's finances” San Diego Tribune 2.3.10
16. “Kingdom Kim’s Culinary Outposts” Slate 03.22.10
17. “The weird world of North Korea’s restaurants abroad” 4.8.16 WaPo
18. “U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack” Reuters 12.18.17
19. “U.S. declares North Korea carried out massive WannaCry cyberattack” WaPo 12.19.17
20. “Ex-N.S.A. Worker Accused of Stealing Trove of Secrets…” NYTimes 1.3.18 (last sentence)
21. “Feds: Ex-NSA contractor stole names…” CNN 10.27.16
22. “Ex-NSA contractor accused of hoarding” Politico 1.3.18
23. “Hacking group auctions 'cyber weapons' stolen from NSA” Guardian 08.16.16
24. “NSA's powerful Windows hacking tools leaked online” 04.15.17
25. “While Microsoft griped about NSA exploit stockpiles…” The Register 5.16.17
26. “WANNACRY: VIEWS FROM THE DNS FRONTLINE” 5.15.17 Yohai Einav
27. “Ransomware cyberattack: Computer expert who blocked…” ABC AU 5.16.17
28. “Kim Jong Il's 'Cashbox'” Forbes 4.15.10
29. “Mexico's former president Enrique Pena…” Telegraph 1.16.19
30. “Bolsonaro's Davos debut overshadowed…” The Guardian 1.22.19
31. “In Hail of... and Fire, North Korea” New York Times. 3.12.16
32. “U.S. Said to Find North Korea Ordered Cyberattack on Sony” NYT 12.14.14

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[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

North Korea, Best Korea. Nothing wrong with my hackers

[Jodonho]

Does Skillshare cover cybercrime or do I have to go to North Korea?

[ThereCameAnEcho]

Putting the sponsorship at the beginning and end of the video instead of the middle was much smoother, IMO. Glad to see you getting sponsorships, and thank you for another great video!

[makkapakka]

3:24 sounds like Name Explain is doing the voice over

[christianweibrecht]

can you make a video on bolsanaro or his political party?

[joaovitormatos]

You've mentioned Brazilian politics

Beware

[KhalerJex]

This channel should have 1 million subscribers.

[benjamingoldstein]

Rough life in North Korea ... they don't have skillshare. LOL.

[BusinessHooks]

I thought Lazarus got away with like $81 million during that bank attack

[oliverpotts]

Now I'm wondering if every pack of fake cigs I buy goes towards North Korean nuclear weaponary.

[alexfriedman]

As a Korean learner I like to look at the signs. at 0:38 you see 강성 국가 건설 . 강성 I never seen before but I guess it means like toughness, Stiffness, Strength. 국가 means country but is more used in N Korea where as 나라 is more used in south. 건설 is contrusction, to build, to erect. Interesting huh. I thought so.

[DarkDog]

Great video, really well researched.
The videos of people 'hacking' were a bit distracting but I suppose they are fine as visualizations for something like this are hard to come by.

Thanks for making well researched content, it's the right thing to do :)

[NSLikeableHuman]

Outdated software, insufficient backups, inexistent threat modelling, what’s disk encryption? We don’t even try, do we? 😅

[johnnybadboy]

Marcus Hudgens must be given more attention. He’s a legend.

[guimainny]

As always, great video Will! Your channel is clinically underrated, regards!

[zhubajie]

Cambodia has many of these North Korean "Restaurants" which I've been told by locals are nothing more than brothels for Cambodian officials to raise hard currency for North Korea.

[kostyac]

Anybody know who the white gentleman in the picture at 6:47 is? Could be from the USSR, but the suit and tie both scream USA.

[johnnybadboy]

I wonder if a North Korean or an American joker is going to say “I’m watching this from North Korea.”

[Dadscap]

Awesome and very informative video Will. Was a pleasure to watch.
Btw, do you have the name of the music playing @ 11:00 ? Not in the description

[Pyro-Moloch]

Russia is not that different. Maybe the government is not the crime itself, but with the amount of cooperation, it might as well be.