Kim Jong-un: Lone Wolf American Hacker took down All of my Internet to mock North Korean state-sponsored cyber force

Royal Portrait of The Kim Dynasty

Who? An American dude dares to take down the Glorious Kim’s Internet?

“If you poke Hidden Cobra with a cyber stick, I hope the real cobra does not sink it’s fangs deep into you.”

Ian Thornton-Trump, a former Canadian military intelligence operative

One American Hacker Suddenly Took Down North Korea’s Internet—All Of It

Across the last couple of weeks of January, the Internet in North Korea was observed to be down. The blackout of Kim Jong-un’s internet connectivity, although intermittent, was hugely disruptive with reports suggesting an “attack against North Korean servers took the entire country off the internet.” The timing of these attacks coincided with the latest bunch of missile tests, the internet blackout just mentioned coming the day after the fifth such test took place. It should come as no surprise, then, that suspicion for the takedown fell upon nation states in the west. In particular, the U.S. Cyber Command was thought to be a primary suspect.
Meanwhile somewhere in Pyongyang…

North Korea: Yes, We Have Internet Access

North Korea: Yes, We Have Internet Access from facepalm

So, who did hack Kim Jong-un’s Internet?

But what if it were not a coordinated nation state military response? What if a single hacker, out for revenge, was behind the attacks? Well, guess what, that does indeed seem to be the case. In an interview with Wired magazine an American hacker, identified only as P4x, claims to be person behind the blackouts. Wired has seen the evidence to back up the claims.
According to the Wired article, P4x wanted to send a message to the North Korean government. “I want them to understand that if you come at us, it means some of your infrastructure is going down for a while,” he told Wired.

No kidding, even Obama is obsessed with Kim Jung-Un KpOp Hairdo…

Kim Jong-un style haircut

Kim Jong-un style haircut from nextfuckinglevel

A Vietnamese salon offers a free haircut for people wanting Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump’s hairstyle.

Revenge is a cyberattack best served cold

The event that sparked all of this was not recent, however. Back in January last year, Forbes reported how North Korean hackers had breached both Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome defenses in order to target U.S. security researchers. So, why did P4x wait a year before then suddenly serving up his cold revenge?
Speaking to Wired he reveals that the original hacking campaign that targeted security researchers had been unsuccessful in his case. However, it did leave him feeling “deeply unnerved” not only by being on the receiving end of North Korean state-sponsored hacking attention but also at the “lack of any visible response from the U.S. government.”

Having taken his time, and in essence performed a penetration test against North Korean internet infrastructure systems, he had all he needed to launch the denial-of-service attacks. These targeted vulnerabilities found in servers and routers that had failed to be patched, and which were largely responsible for connecting the outside world to North Korean sites as well as services such as email.

Trump too thinks Kim Jong-un is Nice, Handsome, and Thin…

Kim Jong-un: Did he just call me …… from WatchPeopleDieInside

And here is the Nice, Handsome, and Thin Kim Jong-un…

Poking the Hidden Cobra

P4x said that it felt like the right thing to do because “if they don’t see we have teeth, it’s just going to keep coming.” His hacking back activity may not be over yet, either. The same article suggests P4x may “try actually hacking into North Korean systems,” in order to “steal information and share it with experts.”
I spoke with Ian Thornton-Trump, a former Canadian military intelligence operative and the current chief information security officer with threat intelligence firm, Cyjax.
“Online vigilantism or hacktivism is a dangerous game to begin with,” he warned, “against a nation state it is foolhardy.” Thornton-Trump pointed out that North Korea already has significant cyber capabilities, and lacks moral or ethical constraint, which means retaliation of one form or another could be expected. Referring to the U.S. government security agency ‘Hidden Cobra’ label for malicious North Korean state-sponsored cyber activity, he concludes: “If you poke Hidden Cobra with a cyber stick, I hope the real cobra does not sink it’s fangs deep into you.”
And this Tik Tok shot…?

Kim Jun-un is obviously not amused, he’s spamming a sex tape below for now. Watch for ‘Hidden Cobra’ to emerge… likely an Armageddon event.
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