Korean ISP Hacks Customers Using Torrent Software

In this video I discuss how Korean Telecom (aka KT Corp) deployed malware to the PC's of 600k of their customers who were using bittorrent applications to share files with one another.

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[KaygeeFromNanotrasen]

people dont seem to understand Korea is practically a cyberpunk dystopia lol

[Nry_Chan]

Having moved to Korea I can confirm that the internet is wack here. A lot of companies flat out require you to use VeraPort to even use their service.
From banks to postal, they all require this same piece of junkware to be installed.

Now what's fun about VeraPort?
Each site can require VeraPort to load additional software. This installation is silent and without the user's permission. It can even adjust firewall rules and block local programs from running. Hell it even installs itself as a trusted root certificate.

So my assumption is that KT used their DNS resolver to serve additional data to VeraPort and forced it to install this spyware. Since most koreans are forced to use this for "identity verification" anyway.

[JodyBruchon]

*I will pirate everything, keep it forever, and there isn't a sneed thing anyone can do about it.*

[mcdoublemaster]

This sounds like the nightmare scenario of what the Internet could've become.

[muhdiversity]

This is why you absolutely say no to anyone that wants you to install their app/code on you PC or phone. You just don't know what kind of STD you'll be picking up.

[hodolski]

KT shows hostility towards their customers everyday.
LG Uplus is very glad to use Huawei equipment.
SK Broadband simply sucks bad and kills your would-be-best esports match of the day.
Other local providers? Hell, no. All traffic outbound from Korea will pass KT's backbone.
Welcome to Cyberpunk 2024.

[TheHammemo]

In my country they don't care. A ISP employee said all the DMCA emails they get just sit there in the inbox unread lol.

[dieglhix]

That is horrible. In Chile we have a net neutrality law. I pay $11 dollars per month for fixed 500mbps, totally uncapped and I can torrent whatever I want except really illegal stuff (P-level stuff of course). Have HDDs full of BR rips and emulation. ISPs can't do anything and they must ensure our contracted speeds, even through P2P!

[Lua]

Something something no matter what you think they're doing, it's actually worse than that...

[You_Could_Be_Next]

"With McaFee VPN I-"


Dodges shoe

[Otacanthus]

It's so fun seeing more people realise how doomed that country is in general

[typingcat]

I don't know about this incident, but the thing is, since the start of the commercial Internet, Koreans have been trained to install any random binary to use web services, so they probably just installed some random binary that the KT website told them to install. All Korean websites that deal with money or government information require the user to install ActiveX (these days, Windows binary for Chrome extensions, but they are practically the same thing). This is even mandated by the law, so even if some companies didn't want to use such things, they have to "to protect the customers". Bank websites will install an antivirus and anti keylogger. You already have your own antivirus? Doesn't matter; you have to install the bank's one anyway.

Well, I use a Windows VM just to use Korean websites, and the VM is riddled with crappy background processes even from the start when the web browser has not started. The background processes of these quote unquote security services take 30~40% of the CPU when there is no foreground app.

[cristitanase]

South Korea its a die hard dystopia, not only it's internet, the entire country is like that.

[jddes]

I never thought I'd have to give kudos to Comcast, but hey they didn't infect me with malware

[nohYoom]

As a Korean I did not know how bad the state of Korean internet is. I with KT goes out of business and the new Telcom company succeeds without greed.

[pacifico]

It's not North Korea doing the hacking for once

[이지유팬클럽]

외국인들도 이렇게 심각하게 관심을 가지는데 정작 한국에서는 별일 아니라는듯이 넘어가는게 말이 안된다.
KT 사기랑 갑질사건이 1년에 몇개씩 터지는데 다른 통신사들이 전부다 KT회선 빌려쓰고 있으니 대안도 없음 ㅋㅋ

[collectorguy]

The Canadian and US governments wish they had this level of compliance from citizens.

[Dave]

The peninsula is a massive hell on earth

[yoymate]

people finding out that both sides of parallel 38 are a dystopia: