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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Feb 3, 2022, 08:25 PM Feb 2022

A lone hacker on a revenge mission says he is the one who keeps turning off North Korea's internet

North Korea disappeared from the internet at least twice in the past month, with state-run websites becoming inaccessible in what some observers speculated was a distributed denial-of-service attack on the country's servers. In a report published Tuesday, a lone hacker bent on revenge told Wired that he was responsible for crippling the secretive country's internet.

The American hacker — who goes by the handle P4x — told Wired he was one of the victims of a cyberattack last year on Western security researchers carried out by North Korean spies. He said he was frustrated that he was a target and that the US appeared to have a lacking response.

He said the hackers tried to snatch hacking tools and information on software vulnerabilities but he was able to stop them before they could get anything worthwhile. Nonetheless, there was a feeling of resentment, he told Wired.

"It felt like the right thing to do here," P4x told Wired, adding: "If they don't see we have teeth, it's just going to keep coming.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-lone-hacker-on-a-revenge-mission-says-he-is-the-one-who-keeps-turning-off-north-koreas-internet/ar-AATrF5b

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A lone hacker on a revenge mission says he is the one who keeps turning off North Korea's internet (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
You got to love a white hat hacker.. Now if he could just make their rockets go west into China mitch96 Feb 2022 #1
most of North Korea doesn't have power soryang Feb 2022 #2

mitch96

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1. You got to love a white hat hacker.. Now if he could just make their rockets go west into China
Thu Feb 3, 2022, 09:45 PM
Feb 2022

That would be a hoot!!
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