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An Assessment of North Korean Cyber Threats
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Boo, Hyeong-Wook |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | North Korea is one of the hardest intelligence targets for a government. It is a chauvinistic country endorsing the Ju-che ideology. It is one of the poorest counties in the world. Its cyber infrastructure seems to be very rudimentary and one can hardly expect public Wi-Fi or cloud services in North Korea. When Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google returned from North Korea in 2013 after his short visit, he said there were only a few thousand computers connected to the internet in North Korea. Even from the perspective of cyber, North Korea is surely a hermit kingdom. Meanwhile, we have witnessed that North Korea launched very sophisticated cyber attacks against South Korea and the United States. Starting from simple DDoS attacks on popular websites and e-mail hacking, their cyber offensive operations adopted advanced technologies called APT1 (Advanced Persistent Threat). Recently, North Korean hackers tried to expand their playing fields from PC platforms to mobile platforms as in the recent attack that compromised smartphones of several influential politicians. Witnessing North Korean cyber attacks and its infrastructure, people raised many questions. How can a country like North Korea pose such serious cyber threats?2 Some skeptics argued that the computer security industry exaggerated North Korea's cyber capabilities and the magnitude of the threats for the promotion of their business. With these questions in mind, there is a growing need to assess North Korea's cyber capabilities and the reality of the threat correctly. However, it is a very hard task to assess North Korea's cyber capabilities and its intent. Even though we have analyzed North Korean |
| Starting Page | 97 |
| Ending Page | 97 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 31 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/event/symposium/pdf/2016/E-02.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
