North Korea's Hackers Are Still Active, and What Data Clearview AI Has on You

CYBER

VICE

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In late 2014, North Korean hackers made their blockbuster debut in popular culture after the infamous Sony hack. It was one of those watershed cybersecurity moments when a hacking story finally dominated news headlines with a made for Hollywood plot: A Seth Rogen stoner comedy catching the ire of the Hermit Kingdom so much so that Kim Jong Un deployed his team of skillful hackers to embarrass the movie company that made the film.

Even when the NSA confirmed North Korea was the culprit, people still openly wondered how a country virtually shut off from world markets by a series of international sanctions and with less than 1 percent of its population actually on the internet, could afford or train elite hackers?

But then North Korean hackers struck again by allegedly creating the globally impactful WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017, and then yet again by apparently stealing money from a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange not long after that—further showing that the country is a hacking threat.

On today’s CYBER we have Shannon Vavra from CyberScoop News, who covers geopolitics and cyberwarfare, to talk about what North Korean hackers are up to these days and how the U.S. government is responding to them.

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.7	It's a unit system.
0:13.1	I know this.
0:15.1	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.3	It tells her everything.
0:19.1	Sir, he's uploading the virus. Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:23.6	To popular culture, North Korean hackers made their blockbuster debut after the infamous Sony hack.
0:29.6	Sony Pictures Entertainment tells CNN, it's still investigating what it calls a very sophisticated cyber attack.
0:36.6	It was one of those watershed cyber moments,
0:39.3	a Seth Rogen stoner comedy catching the ire of the Hermit Kingdom.
0:42.3	You two are going to be in a room alone with Kim, and the CIA would love it if you could take him out.
0:48.3	Hmm?
0:50.3	Take him out.
0:51.3	For coffee?
0:52.3	Dinner.
0:53.3	For kimchi? No. Take him out. You want us Dinner. For kimchi? No, take him out.
0:56.2	You want us to kill the leader of North Korea?
0:58.2	Yes.
0:58.9	So much so that Kim Jong-un deployed his team of skillful hackers to embarrass the movie company who made the film.
1:05.0	CNN Money has discovered that the hackers exposed the social security numbers of Conan O'Brien, Sylvester Stallone, and over 47,000 other Sony employees and contractors.
1:15.7	But even when the NSA confirmed North Korea was the culprit, people still openly wondered how a country with an economy smaller than many U.S. cities could afford elite hackers.
1:25.4	Then they struck again.
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