How North Korea Tried To Steal $1 Billion | Investigators

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An elite group of hackers supported by the North Korean government has been on an audacious cyber-crime spree.

From hacking Hollywood and attempting to steal one billion dollars from Bangladesh Bank to releasing a computer virus that spread across the world, journalists Geoff White and Jean Lee piece together this crazy story.

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Such a great, well researched video from Vice

kimjongun

"Sony executives were reduced to using ordinary pen and paper to carry out assignments..." L.O.L. I can imagine they drove home in their Range Rovers with sore wrists, too.

bluest

I live in Bangladesh, Dhaka
I'll tell you this the foreigner media was more interested in covering this story when it first came out rather than local TV channels.

faiyazabdullah

North Korea: Tries to steal $1B
United States of America: Hold my unlimited money printing machine! 💰💸

RichTechnologyGroup

11 minutes just saved me hours from listening to the podcast.

EgdeFilms

Leaving out the best part where they sabotaged the printers that prints every transaction.

wboumans

I was deployed in the navy during the Sony attack, it was mentioned in a briefing and followed up with “the movie The Interview is off limits to service members. Don’t see it in theaters, don’t download it…. Simply avoid it.”

Apparently there was fear that theaters in specific Asian countries would be attacked for showing the movie, and movie files for download would be travel vessels for malware. Its wild how much turbulence that movie was able to create.

Tsudkyk

The bank heists were exploited through primarily social engineering. While WannaCry depended on an exploit developed by the NSA that was leaked nearly a year prior to the incident. I find it unfortunate that detail wasn't mentioned in this reporting. The NSAs policy of keeping strategic ability to break systems rather than help secure them puts us all at risk.
Generally speaking exploits in old software are cheap because its the developers themselves and security researchers that are finding and publishing these exploits so other developers can learn from it. That also is how sysops make decisions about maintaining comparability with legacy systems or updating because a new exploit exists. The NSA withheld this information from Microsoft.
It also shows North Korea leet hacking abilities isn't so amazing after all. They in fact bought the exploit from another group that got a hold of the leak.

Furiends

I remember watching this years ago. North Korea is quite crafty. Though $80 million is only a drop in the bucket for weapon systems.

Lena-vwye

Sony needs to turn this into a movie. 💰

mansooraziz

Its insane to think that all of this happened primarily because of seth rogen and james franco 🤣🤣.

anwitmondal

Nobody mentions that most companies have underpaid IT workers and actually never upgrade. They are working on IE and Windows XP.
Who is really responsible for the attack if not the greedy owners?

johnnybravohonk

Unfortunately it's probably the Bangladeshi people who are going to be the worst affected by this. And even I know that if you want to keep files private you keep them on a computer that you don't connect to the internet.

juanzero