Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’
(english.elpais.com)
from andrade@infosec.pub to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 26 Jun 2024 02:02
https://infosec.pub/post/14127624
from andrade@infosec.pub to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 26 Jun 2024 02:02
https://infosec.pub/post/14127624
(…) the internet went down across the country. A wave of cyberattacks left all systems on hold for more than seven days. First, the main national websites failed, from the official news site to the booking page of the national airline. Then, the Asian state’s connections with the rest of the world were interrupted. Emails could not be sent or received; there was no connection to cloud services. The blockade was complete.
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What did you do today? Destroyed the internet of an authoritarian regime, you?
note to self : do not fuck with alejandro
Lady Gaga seemed to have a good time of it.
Thx op
tl;dr: he DDoS’d all two of North Korea’s routers
<img alt="doug-clap" src="https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4d44f90b-25db-4977-bee7-e0262a9e0e98.png"> What a uniquely skilled individual!
Me, a cyber-commando, dressing up in full tactical gear, ready for anything, for the trip from my gaming chair to my refrigerator to get beer while I watch my rented Azure servers send spam to a small country’s routers
Smh our bureaucratic government won’t approve my request to start a war with the DPRK from my couch
If he did this to any other small nation, especially a US-aligned one, he would be charged with a serious crime. The US can’t openly do electronic warfare but they can stand by and watch this clown do what basically amounts to cyber-terrorism, a least for a little while
Anyway, now that he doxxed himself I hope the DPRK actually gives him something to fear lol
Also
Lmao
This is peak journalism, they obviously took him at his word
What normal people hear: “He took down the routers with some crazy complicated algorithms. He’s Neo in the matrix.”
What IT professionals hear: “He hired a bunch of people to keep sending spam letters to their tiny mailboxes until they were so stuffed that they couldn’t receive any legitimate mail.”
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Au revoir!
Florida Man Crashed Internet in All of North Korea
Unless things have changed, North Korea doesn’t have a whole lot by way of Internet. I think they used to have two Class C netblocks, 256 IP addresses each.
kagis.
They’re apparently up to four.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
The regime doesn’t like people having access to outside information.