Now this makes more sense. North Korea isn’t cable of the massive hack attack on Sony IMO. I don’t think Iran is either. But China or Russia? They are definitely capable of such a cyber terrorist attack. If i had to guess, I’d point to Russia as the Ruble crashes and oil prices fall.
The source pointed to the sophistication of malware “modules or packets” that destroyed the Sony systems — on a level that has not been seen from North Korea in the past — but has been seen from Iran, China and Russia.
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The bottom line is this. THanks to Obama and his inept progressive liberal appeasement policies, the US has lost the cyber terrorism war, at least so far.
There is no evidence of a forced entry into the Sony systems, pointing to an insider threat or stolen credentials. And the first emails sent to Sony, described as blackmail or extortion, included demands unrelated to the movie.
The malware had two destructive threads, the source said: it overwrites data and it interrupts execution processes, such as a computer’s start-up functions. After the initial attack, the FBI warned the industry that the malware can be so destructive that the data is not recoverable or it is too costly a process to retrieve. The intelligence source added that the forensic evidence suggests that the final stage of the attack was launched outside North Korea’s borders — creating some plausible deniability.
“Given the destructive efforts or effects of this attack, we’re treating this as a national security matter, and as such, members of the president’s national security team have been in regular meetings regarding this attack,” State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.