North Korea's Internet Is Totally Screwed Right Now


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Following several days of continuous connectivity problems, North Korea's internet has gone dark, according to one researcher. Whether it's a cyber attack or a routine outage remains unclear. However, it looks a lot like a DDoS attack.

 

News of the outage arrives just two days after the United States asked China to help in cripple North Korea's ability to mount cyber attacks, after the FBI blamed Kim Jong-Un's regime for hacking into Sony Pictures. This does not necessarily mean that North Korea itself has become victim to a cyber attack. The country experiences outages all the time, in part due to poor infrastructure. However, some experts think this string of instability is different.

 

''The situation now is they are totally offline," Doug Madory of Dyn Research told Bloomberg. "I don't know that someone is launching a cyber-attack against North Korea, but this isn't normal for them." Earlier, Madory had told North Korea Tech, "I haven't seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before. Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently."

 

One can't help but wonder if China or the U.S. might be involved. China, for one, recentlyannounced an investigation into North Korea's role in the Sony Pictures hack despite being a potential partner. North Korea, for its part, denies any role at all, though the country's posture became markedly more aggressive in the past couple of days. After proposing the U.S. help in a joint inquiry to prove it had nothing to do with the attacks, North Korea threatened to strike the White House and "the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism."

 

North Korea obviously isn't happy about being fingered as the villain in the attack on Sony Pictures. (A lot of smart people still don't think North Korea had anything to do with the hack.) Now, the country can be unhappy with its

lack of internet access

 

Update (2:40 p.m.): Madory later told The New York Times, "Their networks are under duress. This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers." The paper's Nicole Perlroth explains the details: 

 

http://gizmodo.com/north-koreas-internet-is-totally-screwed-right-now-1674118374

 

I guess great leader and 5 other people don't have internet today.

 

"Did they try to reboot a router"

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North Korea's internet?

So what like the 1 computer that they have?

 

Indeed but apparently enough to cripple Sony Motion Pictures infrastructure.

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Obama, Do something! at this point you've only messed things up, sorry.

 

seriously, You've done fine on terms of other conflicts but making North Korea the antagonist in this event without true evidence is just wrong.

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Following several days of continuous connectivity problems, North Korea's internet has gone dark, according to one researcher. Whether it's a cyber attack or a routine outage remains unclear. However, it looks a lot like a DDoS attack.

 

News of the outage arrives just two days after the United States asked China to help in cripple North Korea's ability to mount cyber attacks, after the FBI blamed Kim Jong-Un's regime for hacking into Sony Pictures. This does not necessarily mean that North Korea itself has become victim to a cyber attack. The country experiences outages all the time, in part due to poor infrastructure. However, some experts think this string of instability is different.

 

''The situation now is they are totally offline," Doug Madory of Dyn Research told Bloomberg. "I don't know that someone is launching a cyber-attack against North Korea, but this isn't normal for them." Earlier, Madory had told North Korea Tech, "I haven't seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before. Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently."

 

One can't help but wonder if China or the U.S. might be involved. China, for one, recentlyannounced an investigation into North Korea's role in the Sony Pictures hack despite being a potential partner. North Korea, for its part, denies any role at all, though the country's posture became markedly more aggressive in the past couple of days. After proposing the U.S. help in a joint inquiry to prove it had nothing to do with the attacks, North Korea threatened to strike the White House and "the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism."

 

North Korea obviously isn't happy about being fingered as the villain in the attack on Sony Pictures. (A lot of smart people still don't think North Korea had anything to do with the hack.) Now, the country can be unhappy with its

lack of internet access

 

Update (2:40 p.m.): Madory later told The New York Times, "Their networks are under duress. This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers." The paper's Nicole Perlroth explains the details: 

 

http://gizmodo.com/north-koreas-internet-is-totally-screwed-right-now-1674118374

 

I guess great leader and 5 other people don't have internet today.

 

"Did they try to reboot a router"

 

And as to WHY the PRC would help, it merely requires some old-fashioned thinking.

 

Remember all the criticism that United States has taken (and continues to take) over the actions - both good AND bad - of the allies of the United States?  Why wouldn't that apply to the PRC, especially lately?

 

ALL of the actions of the DPRK, and especially lately, have given the PRC a bit of a black eye diplomatically, if not worse.  While neither the RoK, let alone the US Eighth Army (which is based in the RoK), is even capable of outright invading the DPRK (never mind that the PRC can't allow that and save face), there are things that the PRC can "cover" that the United States Cyber Command (the US military's cyberwarfare arm) CAN do to the DPRK Internet infrastructure.

 

And there is even precedent to the PRC "educating" the DPRK on the "rules of the road" - have we forgotten "The Last Emperor"?  That movie was a DRAMA which didn't exactly paint the PRC in a flattering light - and the PRC stood there and took the slings and arrows of a horked-off world - no less than Mikhail Gorbachev shot a few arrows in the PRC's direction.  Yet the PRC took their lumps.  (By the by, what studio distributed that drama?)

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Obama, Do something! at this point you've only messed things up, sorry.

 

seriously, You've done fine on terms of other conflicts but making North Korea the antagonist in this event without true evidence is just wrong.

 

Lol, wut.....

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While this would be a huge problem in pretty much any other country of the world, it won't make any difference for 99% of all people in North Korea, as they don't have any internet anyway. Only the top 1% of their party executives have internet access.

 

Heck, those 99% in North Korea don't even have electricity at night :omg:

Here's a night time satellite photo:

 

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Here's a night time satellite photo:

Interesting photo -- hate to use the phrase, but the difference really is as night and day, puts things in perspective a bit.
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Obama, Do something! at this point you've only messed things up, sorry.

 

seriously, You've done fine on terms of other conflicts but making North Korea the antagonist in this event without true evidence is just wrong.

 

The president stated that the FBI has proved the attack was from North Korea (the government).  Either you believe him or you don't, he isn't going to sit you down and prove it to you.  If you don't believe him, then you will question any evidence he brings up.  If you do believe him, then do you really need to see the evidence?  If there was talk about dropping bombs or having someone killed, then heck yes, I would want more publicly reviewed proof (we don't need another Bush).  But if our response is to switch off their internet for a while, I am satisfied with his position.

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So I presume we have concrete proof that this was done by North Korea?

 

No, not yet. The system still goes "Innocent until proven guilty."

It just seems that someone prematurely performed an act of retaliation onto the supposed perpetrator.

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seriously, country with poor internet infrastructure could download massive TB data from sonny in short amount of time?

God some people are dumb (Not directly at you, just in general) cause I keep hearing this.. the Attack was done BY North Korea, not from WITHIN North Korea.

But yes, their internet is connected via China, and can easily download all that data. We aren't talking about them getting internet from some Cable Company in the US, we are talking about Multiple lines from China's backbone connection directly to NK. This isn't consumer stuff, or even business grade stuff.

 

 

Anyway.. Back to the Comedy..

 

Apparently what happened was they were going through their downloaded loots and accidentally installed a few RootKits from Sony Music.. Shame.. really..

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The real attackers are laughing their way to hell and back now. I find it silly that NK would attack a publicly-owned Japanese entertainment corporation because of some random movie.

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God some people are dumb (Not directly at you, just in general) cause I keep hearing this.. the Attack was done BY North Korea, not from WITHIN North Korea.

Not according to FBI statements that said the attack originated FROM North Korea IP addresses range,

hence why US govt demanding China to cripple the already pitiful NK internet.

Now that you mentioning China, FBI are not accusing china as co-collaborator for the attack, wonder why?

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Not according to FBI statements that said the attack originated FROM North Korea IP addresses range,

hence why US govt demanding China to cripple the already pitiful NK internet.

Now that you mentioning China, FBI are not accusing china as co-collaborator for the attack, wonder why?

 

FBI is just talking to talk.. Thing went through so many Proxy's it could have originated from inside Disney and they wouldn't find it..

 

As for why not point the finger at China.. No benefit. None. Sure may make some Americans go Rah Rah Rah, but in the big picture, nothing good comes from poking China over it. Hell it's why I don't even think the US Gov't went after their net.. Again, no benefit. Everyone is already raging at NK. They aren't ongoing attacks. No point to doing it.. My bet is it was some other hackers, or maybe even China just reminding Lil'Kim to stop making them look bad.

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