North Korea is almost certainly behind the massive hack at Sony Pictures. That says, the FBI Friday in a statement. The service is based on an analysis of the malware, which has similarities with other Korean code.
The FBI did with other services investigation into the hack. The service conducted under a technical analysis of the malware. It emerged that the malware the same lines of code as any other software, that North Korea previously used. In addition, discovered the FBI that the malware is the same infrastructure used previously were used in Korean attacks. So, the ip addresses in the code correspond to Korean addresses, according to the service.
Further used by the attackers, according to the FBI the same tools as the criminals who earlier this year were involved in a large-scale hackoperatie in South Korea. Thereby they created by means of malware computer systems at banks and tv stations in the country flat. At the time, accused several countries, even North Korea, but there were no indications of that being.
The FBI says very worried about the ‘destructive attack on the private sector and the employees that work. In addition, the attack of North Korea on Sony to emphasize that cybercrime one of the biggest national threats to the United States. “Such intimidation fall outside of acceptable behavior,” said the service.
The accusation of the Americans is remarkable, because North Korea in an official statement said not to know of the attack. One of the theories was quite soon that the country behind the attack was to get revenge on the comedy The Interview that Sony made about the liquidation of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The release of the film, it blew the Sony because of the cyber attack.
Update, 21: 40 hours – President Barack Obama admitted during a press conference Friday night to know that the United States attack ‘proportional’ will be answered. How and when that happens, determines the country in which he is concerned at an appropriate time.