NSA Internet invaded North Korea – Digital Journal

 
 
 When the FBI blamed North Korea for the invasion of Sony Pictures, some questioned-how do you come to that conclusion so quickly. Now, new documents and interviews show that the NSA has been invading North Korean networks for years -. And yet failed to prevent the attack on Sony

The New York Times reports that, hidden among a new series of documents from the NSA, there is evidence to suggest that the National Security Agency tried to invade the systems of North Korea in 2010. According to former US officials and other countries, the US hid networks in North Korea through Chinese networks.

What initially began as a ‘secret program of the security agency’ seemingly ‘expanded on an ambitious effort to put malware that could monitor the inner workings of many of the computers and networks used by hackers in North Korea. ” Over time, these ‘beacons’ provided a constant source of information about the digital activities of North Korea.

In fact, the evidence collected in this way ‘proved critical’ to convince Barack Obama that North Korea was behind the attacks on Sony Pictures. This is actually quite plausible:. Blame Kim Jong-un was a great and highly unusual prosecution therefore had to be some strong evidence to back it up

The Director of the FBI, James Comey, explained that hackers North Korea were caught because “were sloppy several times’, but it is unlikely that this alone would suffice to convince Obama that the isolated country was responsible. Instead, it seems, the FBI followed a trail of clues in the last four years to reach this conclusion

All this leads to a question:. The NSA could have helped prevent the attack on Sony Pictures? Maybe. American officials only began to focus on North Korea after the attacks in November when employees of Sony Pictures began to encounter strange images on company computers.

However, there were several signs that the attack would happen. North Korean hackers showed what they were capable in 2013, when an attack banks and media companies in South Korea dropped almost 50,000 computers and servers.

In June, North Korea warned that there was happy with the film ‘The Interview’, whose plot involves killing Kim Jong-un. The US government warned Sony Pictures to be careful.

Also, since September, employees of Sony Pictures began receiving emails with malicious links, but “it did not sound any alarm,” said a source limited to the NYT. The studio had poor security practices – save passwords in a “Password” folder, for example – and they needed all the help, which apparently did not come.