Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses

[WestVirginiaRebel]

NY Times:

SAN FRANCISCO — North Korea’s already tenuous links to the Internet went completely dark on Monday after days of instability, in what Internet monitors described as one of the worst North Korean network failures in years.

 

The loss of service came just days after President Obama pledged that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to the recent attacks on Sony Pictures, which government officials have linked to North Korea. While an attack on North Korea’s networks was suspected, there was no definitive evidence of it.

 

Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, an Internet performance management company, said that North Korean Internet access first became unstable late Friday. The situation worsened over the weekend, and by Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline.

 

“Their networks are under duress,” Mr. Madory said. “This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,” he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load.

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Ronery in the dark?

[Draggingtree]

North Korea’s internet access is “toast” (Developing)

Posted by Amy Miller ▪ Monday, December 22, 2014 at 3:01pm

Cybershenanigans possible.

Could it be that the United States has finally hit back against North Korea’s cyberaggression?

All 1,024 of North Korea’s Internet protocol addresses have gone dark, and internet monitors are calling the outage one of the worst network failures in years.

From the Washington Post:

The connectivity problems are coming just days after President Obama warned of a “proportional response” to North Korea, which is suspected of breaking into Sony’s network in a major cyber hack. It’s not yet known whether the United States is responsible for the downtime. But according to Dyn Research — which earlier this year bought the respected network analysis firm Renesys — North Korea’s Internet is currently showing unusual amounts of instability.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/12/north-koreas-internet-access-is-toast-developing/

[WestVirginiaRebel]

North Korea before hack attack

 

North Korea after hack attack

[nickydog]

So all 2 computers in N. Korea are no longer working?

[Valin]

Can We Say The National Security Agency?

 

Welcome to the XIst century.

 

North Korea experiencing widespread Internet outages

 

North Korea experienced a massive Internet outage Monday, and some researchers and web watchers speculated that the country's online connections could be under cyberattack.

 

The Internet outage comes less than a week after the U.S. vowed an unspecified response to a massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment over the release of the comedy film "The Interview." The plot of the comedy centers on the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, leading to widespread speculation that the country was responsible for the attack. Late last week, the FBI publicly blamed North Korea in the incident, though Pyongyang has denied involvement.

 

The White House and the State Department on Monday declined to say whether the U.S. government had any role in North Korea's Internet problems.

 

"We have no new information to share regarding North Korea today," White House National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan told Fox News. "If in fact North Korea’s Internet has gone down, we’d refer you to that government for comment."

 

North Korean diplomat Kim Song, asked Monday about the Internet attack, told The Associated Press: "I have no information."

 

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