Olympic Destroyer

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of 35,000 exhilarated spectators eagerly chanting the time-honored countdown to kick off the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, a sinister malware crept through the games' network, threatening to disrupt the highly-anticipated event. The obvious question in everyone’s minds was - who was responsible for the attack? Who was vile enough to launch such a potentially destructive attack against an event which, more than anything, symbolizes peace and global cooperation?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.
0:01.0	Welcome to Cyber reasons Malicious Life. It's November 28, 2017 and the city of Pionkang is bustling with activity.
0:36.0	In a little more than three months the beautiful mountainous South Korean city
0:41.0	will host the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics
0:46.5	and thousands of athletes, journalists and fans will flood its streets,
0:51.6	ski lanes and world famous Buddhist temples.
0:55.8	No one is probably more busy than the members of the biggest sporting events in the
1:05.0	Winter Olympics is one of the biggest sporting events in the world and they have
1:10.0	been working hard towards this event for the past six years.
1:14.0	After all, South Korea's national pride is on the line.
1:18.0	Millions of people from all over the world will be tuning in to watch the opening ceremony and the following events.
1:26.0	While all this commotion and activity was going on, an email landed in the mailboxes of 30 people.
1:36.8	Some were members of the Organizing Committee, others were Olympic partners, employees of organizations and businesses that worked with the
1:46.1	organizing committee, such as two local ski resorts and the company which provided the official
1:52.3	timekeeping service of the games.
1:55.0	The email titled List of Delegates was from none other than the Vice President of the International
2:01.8	Olympics Committee.
2:03.0	It's safe to assume that most, if not all of the recipients of this email opened it.
2:10.0	A dot zip file was attached to the email containing a Microsoft Word document, which supposedly held the actual list of VIP delegates to the games.
2:22.0	But when the recipients try to open the document, they were presented with
2:26.2	garbled and gibberish text. It's probably an encoding problem. You know what it is. Sometimes it's hard to get vastly different languages such as English and Korean to play nicely in the same document.
2:42.0	Luckily, a button appeared at the top of the document labeled
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