A Sneak Peek into the Forbidden State: Exploring the CyberSpace of North Korea
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A Sneak Peek into the Forbidden State: Exploring the CyberSpace of North Korea
[0x0] The Beginning
So uh, One day I was just scrolling through social media when I came across an interesting news article about how a security researcher named P4x was probably the reason for the internet outages of the DPRK with the outside world. According to him, he had found multiple unpatched security flaws in their assets which were exposed to the outside world and by exploiting them he was successful in performing various “Denial-of-Service” attacks.
Hmm, interesting stuff right? That’s what I thought too and that’s when the craze for working on this research began! You see, Its quite interesting to have a glance over the exposed assets of our not-so-friendly and distant neighbours. There have been attempts in the past similar to what I did but well for me, I thought why not do a fresh scan and …
[0x0] The Beginning
So uh, One day I was just scrolling through social media when I came across an interesting news article about how a security researcher named P4x was probably the reason for the internet outages of the DPRK with the outside world. According to him, he had found multiple unpatched security flaws in their assets which were exposed to the outside world and by exploiting them he was successful in performing various “Denial-of-Service” attacks.
Hmm, interesting stuff right? That’s what I thought too and that’s when the craze for working on this research began! You see, Its quite interesting to have a glance over the exposed assets of our not-so-friendly and distant neighbours. There have been attempts in the past similar to what I did but well for me, I thought why not do a fresh scan and …