US Hacker: DDoS Attack Against North Korea: Hacker “P4x”
American hacker:
February 2,
“At the end of January, I did what made North Korea’s Internet paralyzed,” he said.
Anonymous hacker “P4x”:
On this day, an interview with “Wired” in the United States.
“We launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on North Korea,” he claimed.
North Korean website down:
The DDos attack on January 26 brought down almost all North Korean websites.
This attack was not due to a single country’s cyber operation,
It was an attempt by a hacker alone. It was
In North Korea, connection failures have continued to occur.
North Korean media in the United States
“NK News”
The attack reportedly continued until the morning of February 3.
Reason for hacking:
A year ago, it was “to retaliate against the North Korean hackers who attacked me.”
Last January, North Korean hackers
For the purpose of stealing software weakness information
They tried to hack the researchers in the west.
This hacker was one of the North Korean hackers targets.
Uneasy about US government response:
This hacker
For national-level hacks against individuals
He decided to act directly as an individual.
Weaknesses in North Korea’s net:
-Especially servers and routers
The American hacker said, “Weaknesses were discovered in the servers and routers on which the North Korean network depends, and a series of DDoS attacks were possible.”
Currently already
“I have automated hacking attacks on the North Korean system,” he added.
“Actually hacking the North Korean system, stealing information and sharing it with experts”
Also thinking about recruiting other hackers to take collective action.
Created a dark web (a web that can only be accessed through a special web browser).
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https://www.wowkorea.jp/news/Korea/2022/0204/10334006.html
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
WIRED
FOR THE PAST two weeks, observers of North Korea’s strange and tightly restricted corner of the internet
began to notice that the country seemed to be dealing with some serious connectivity problems.
On several different days, practically all of its websites
—the notoriously isolated nation only has a few dozen—
intermittently dropped offline en masse, from the booking site for its Air Koryo airline to Naenara, a page that serves as the official portal for dictator Kim Jong-un’s government.
At least one of the central routers that allow access to the country’s networks appeared at one point to be paralyzed,
crippling the Hermit Kingdom’s digital connections to the outside world.
Some North Korea watchers pointed out
that the country had just carried out a series of missile tests, implying that a foreign government’s hackers might have launched a cyberattack against the rogue state to tell it to stop saber-rattling.
But responsibility for North Korea’s ongoing internet outages doesn’t lie with US Cyber Command or any other state-sponsored hacking agency.
In fact, it was the work of one American man in a T-shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, sitting in his living room night after night, watching Alien movies and eating spicy corn snacks
—and periodically walking over to his home office to check on the progress of the programs he was running to disrupt the internet of an entire country.
P4x says he’s found numerous known but unpatched vulnerabilities in North Korean systems
that have allowed him to singlehandedly launch “denial-of-service” attacks on the servers and routers the country’s few internet-connected networks depend on.
For the most part,
he declined to publicly reveal those vulnerabilities, which he argues would help the North Korean government defend against his attacks.But he named, as an example, a known bug in the web server software NginX that mishandles certain HTTP headers,
allowing the servers that run the software to be overwhelmed and knocked offline.
He also alluded to finding “ancient” versions of the web server software Apache,
and says he’s started to examine North Korea’s own national homebrew operating system, known as Red Star OS, which he described as an old and likely vulnerable version of Linux.
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/
North Korea cyber-attacks a hacker, he shuts down their whole internet