Beaware North Korean Hackers are targeting exchanges! - page 2.

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Quote from: bitbunnny on September 21, 2017, 08:18:44 AM

North Korea is capable of conducting some special war and maybe attack on exchangers could be a part of that. If many exchangers would be affected that would influence on Bitcoin price in huge scale.
But I don't think that they could become a big "mining power" or that are even interested in that.

seeing that NK capable of creating nuclear weapon, I assume that making income from bitcoin by hacking exchanges and mining is not an impossible thing from them, if you realize how they could gain such technology to create nuclear then you'll easily know that they are really capable of mining with big amount of powers.

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I would be surprise if they hadn't done it yet. I assumed that they are targeting South Korean exchanges and as far I can remember there was one S. Korean that was hacked recently. But I don't know if North Korean is too blame. They have even a school who taught how to do cyber attacks. They called it Unit 180. So its really possible with so much money involved in a exchange a likelihood that North Korea will target it is very high.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-northkorea-exclusive/exclusive-north-koreas-unit-180-the-cyber-warfare-cell-that-worries-the-west-idUSKCN18H020

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Quote from: AK47- on September 21, 2017, 07:57:52 AM

Exchanges always remain under the target of hackers. This is definitely not new. But North Korean hackers are gaining so much importance because of US- North Korea tension. The apread of news before hacking atleast can put exchanges on alert.

To be a target for regular hackers is one thing, but to be a target for the state supported hackers is entirely another. This threat is more dangerous because regular hackers do not have resources the state of North Korea has. It is obvious that you can't do things like that in North Korea without government sanction. So it's not some evil individuals who are to blame, it's the government of North Korea and this should be clear.

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Quote from: allthingsluxury on September 21, 2017, 07:52:13 AM

This is the new, modern day warfare. I agree with Trump, its time to finally deal with the NK problem. It has been put off far too long, and now look at the situation the world finds itself it.

We can blame the previous presidents for putting up with a Nuclear Powered North Korea for such a very long time.And I would want to know why people keep all their bitcoins in exchanges as we already know from previous times that they are hacked all the time.

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North Korea is capable of conducting some special war and maybe attack on exchangers could be a part of that. If many exchangers would be affected that would influence on Bitcoin price in huge scale.
But I don't think that they could become a big "mining power" or that are even interested in that.

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Quote from: yishak on September 21, 2017, 07:47:38 AM

It has been said that North Korea is also planning to start mining at a very large scale to overcome those sanctions.

And how do they plan on mining it?
I doubt they have enough picks and forks to do it.

NK is heavenly dependent on oil they need to sell their coal as cheap as it gets to get money to survive.
Building a huge mining farm will strain their network beyond what they can build with their resources.

Just think how much they will need to invest, how much they will need to spend and fortunately for us they have a few more important things to focus on.
And the first one is FOOD.

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Oh yeah, I think I read about this news somewhere. It's true that these exchanges have always had targets on their backs because how much there is to gain on attacking them, but I think this is at least a slight cause of concern. Small hacker groups are one thing, state funded cyber terrorism groups are another. We can all joke that North Korea is piss poor and couldn't even feed its citizens properly, but we know they're taking warfare, both military and cyber, seriously. I'm not saying that North Korea will cause cyberspace doom or anything, but maybe we should start taking extra precautions.

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Quote from: yishak on September 21, 2017, 07:47:38 AM

~~North Korean hackers are targeting cryptocurrency exchange sites. This is the result of the recent sanctions that the united nations has made on North Korea.~~ It has been said that North Korea is also planning to start mining at a very large scale to overcome those sanctions.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/technology/north-korea-hackers-bitcoin/index.html

if North Korea start mining on a large scale would that be good or bad for bitcoin? i would imagine it would be bad because the rest of the world would view bitcoin even more as a -rogue- currency but good because there is more adoption

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Quote from: okissabam on September 21, 2017, 08:10:35 AM

How or where did you get this news from and can you send us or comment here the link. If it is true, well I think hackers are really targeting exchanges not sure about the North Korean part though but it could be true too.

I have included the link

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How or where did you get this news from and can you send us or comment here the link. If it is true, well I think hackers are really targeting exchanges not sure about the North Korean part though but it could be true too.

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Are you sure about that? What site did you get this information? If this is true, then that's interesting since we all know that North Korea don't allow their citizens there to use internet. But this make sense because some countries cut their ties to NoKor. Im aware that every exchange are vulnerable from attacks. I already seen a lot of that in the past 2 years. Bitfinex and Mt.Gox, they've been hacked and stole a lot of amount of tokens from their site. That's why i don't store huge amount on exchange.

But i think the main reason why united nations sanctioned NoKor is because of the missile testings.

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haha, this is funny! warning us about something that has been happening every day. it is like saying "cars move fast on highways".
any system online that is dealing with money and has some value is being attacked on a daily basis. every day lots of credit cards get hacked and stolen. exchanges, gambling sites, other services have been under attacks too.
and it is not just "North Korean hackers" there are a lot of others sitting in their parents' basement and not seeing the light of day all day long made them believe they are hackers.

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More than likely there are hackers out there trying to target exchanges nearly 24/7. Always someone trying to profit off of someone's hard work. It's not easy to combat this sort of thing but lots more go unsuccessful than not. With that being said we should "seize" their communist cold storage wallets

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Exchanges always remain under the target of hackers. This is definitely not new. But North Korean hackers are gaining so much importance because of US- North Korea tension. The apread of news before hacking atleast can put exchanges on alert.

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This is the new, modern day warfare. I agree with Trump, its time to finally deal with the NK problem. It has been put off far too long, and now look at the situation the world finds itself it.

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North Korean hackers are targeting cryptocurrency exchange sites. This is the result of the recent sanctions that the united nations has made on North Korea. It has been said that North Korea is also planning to start mining at a very large scale to overcome those sanctions.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/technology/north-korea-hackers-bitcoin/index.html

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