Kim Jong Un May Have Just Attacked America and No One Did Anything About It

Did North Korea already launch a secret attack on the U.S.? That’s the jarring accusation YouTube’s Lisa Haven makes in this compelling clip. According to Haven, groups under North Korean control may have launched a computer hack attack using a category of malware called “ransomware.”

For those who are unfamiliar with the term, ransomware is code that can hold a user’s computer hostage similar to the way kidnappers hold a kidnapping victim hostage. The idea is that the perpetrators of a ransomware attack can extort money from a victim in exchange for giving back stolen information or, say, not making certain data public.

In other cases, ransomware perpetrators might threaten to permanently disable a system that contains irreplaceable code or unique copies of files. For many computer users, especially novice ones, these types of threats can be particularly devastating, especially where data might include caches of confidential records such as credit card numbers, social security numbers or company trade secrets. For many businesses, simply paying the ransom quietly may seem like the easiest solution, but it’s definitely not the smartest one.

In this case, the ransomware in question, called WannaCry, may actually have been developed by the North Korean government. “If validated, this means the latest iteration of WannaCry would in fact be the first nation-state powered ransomware,” said Dubai-based researcher Matt Suiche. “This would also mean that a foreign hostile nation would have leveraged lost offensive capabilities from [NSA hackers] Equation Group to create global chaos.” Suiche is referring to the fact that the ransomware in question may have taken advantage of vulnerabilities originally exploited and “stockpiled” by the National Security Agency (NSA).

WannaCry has attacked tens of thousands of computers in the U.S. in the last several months and is suspected to be behind the electronic hacking of the central bank of Bangladesh last year, which cost that institution more than $81 million. The Department of Homeland Security is actively investigating the case. Watch as Haven gives us more info about the North Korean connection.


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