From the desk of
Bill Ramey
12/22/14
COMMENTARY & OPINION
SPECIAL REPORT
Jeff Dunetz
December 20, 2014
The FBI came down hard on North Korea Friday morning as it blamed the
despotic regime of Kim Jong Un for the weeks of cyber-attacks on
Sony which led to the company’s withdrawal of the The Interview,
a movie which was to be released on Christmas Day.
“North Korea’s actions were intended to
inflict significant harm on a U.S. business and suppress the right of American
citizens to express themselves,” the statement reads. “Such acts of
intimidation fall outside the bounds of acceptable state behavior.”
There were three components of the hack
attack which convinced the FBI North Korea was behind the attack: elements
in the code of the malware which were similar to other known North Korean
attacks; some of the IP addresses used in the attack were the same as attempted
North Korean attacks on U.S. government computers; and some of the elements of
the hacking programs were the same as an attack on South Korean banks and media
which were known to be from the North.
The FBI concluded its statement by promising
to impose “costs and consequences” for the attack, but it did not provide any
hint of what those consequences would be:
The FBI stands ready to assist any U.S. company that is the victim of a
destructive cyber attack or breach of confidential business information.
Further, the FBI will continue to work closely with multiple departments and
agencies as well as with domestic, foreign, and private sector partners who
have played a critical role in our ability to trace this and other cyber threats
to their source. Working together, the FBI will identify, pursue, and impose
costs and consequences on individuals, groups, or nation states who use cyber
means to threaten the United
States or U.S. interests.
Below is the entire FBI statement:
Today, the FBI would like to provide an
update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony
Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the
victim of a cyber attack that destroyed systems and stole large quantities of
personal and commercial data. A group calling itself the “Guardians of Peace”
claimed responsibility for the attack and subsequently issued threats against
SPE, its employees, and theaters that distribute its movies.
The FBI has determined that the intrusion
into SPE’s network consisted of the deployment of destructive malware and the
theft of proprietary information as well as employees’ personally identifiable
information and confidential communications. The attacks also rendered
thousands of SPE’s computers inoperable, forced SPE to take its entire computer
network offline, and significantly disrupted the company’s business operations.
After discovering the intrusion into its
network, SPE requested the FBI’s assistance. Since then, the FBI has been
working closely with the company throughout the investigation. Sony has been a
great partner in the investigation, and continues to work closely with the FBI.
Sony reported this incident within hours, which is what the FBI hopes all
companies will do when facing a cyber attack. Sony’s quick reporting
facilitated the investigators’ ability to do their jobs, and ultimately to
identify the source of these attacks.
As a result of our investigation, and in
close collaboration with other U.S. Government departments and agencies, the
FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is
responsible for these actions. While the need to protect sensitive sources and
methods precludes us from sharing all of this information, our conclusion is
based, in part, on the following:
- Technical
analysis of the data deletion malware used in this attack revealed links
to other malware that the FBI knows North Korean actors previously
developed. For example, there were similarities in specific lines of code,
encryption algorithms, data deletion methods, and compromised networks.
- The
FBI also observed significant overlap between the infrastructure used in
this attack and other malicious cyber activity the U.S. Government has
previously linked directly to North Korea. For example, the FBI discovered
that several Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with known North
Korean infrastructure communicated with IP addresses that were hardcoded
into the data deletion malware used in this attack.
- Separately,
the tools used in the SPE attack have similarities to a cyber attack in
March of last year against South Korean banks and media outlets, which was
carried out by North Korea.
We are deeply concerned about the destructive
nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who
worked there. Further, North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats
pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States. Though the FBI has seen
a wide variety and increasing number of cyber intrusions, the destructive
nature of this attack, coupled with its coercive nature, sets it apart. North Korea’s actions were intended to
inflict significant harm on aU.S. business
and suppress the right of American citizens to express themselves. Such acts of
intimidation fall outside the bounds of acceptable state behavior. The FBI
takes seriously any attempt ““ whether through cyber-enabled means, threats of
violence, or otherwise ““ to undermine the economic and social prosperity of
our citizens.
The FBI stands ready to assist any U.S. company that is the victim of a
destructive cyber attack or breach of confidential business information.
Further, the FBI will continue to work closely with multiple departments and
agencies as well as with domestic, foreign, and private sector partners who
have played a critical role in our ability to trace this and other cyber
threats to their source. Working together, the FBI will identify, pursue, and
impose costs and consequences on individuals, groups, or nation states who use
cyber means to threaten the United
States or U.S. interests.
This article was posted: Saturday, December
20, 2014 at 5:27 am
Ramey comments:
Our FBI wouldn't lie to us --- would
they? Read on.
MOMENT OF TRUTH
NSA
hackers can easily frame another country
Kit
Daniels
Prison Planet.com
December
19, 2014
A
presentation by a former NSA analyst revealed it’s feasible for the NSA to hack
a large corporation, such as Sony Pictures, and blame it on a foreign country
such as North Korea.
Credit: Eff.org (Eagle)
Charlie
Miller, who spent five years exploiting foreign computers for the NSA, gave a
presentation entitled Kim Jong-il and Me: How to
Build A Cyber Army to Attack the U.S. in which he explained various hacking
methods and how easy it was to blame an attack on another country.
His
presentation largely relied on his experience at the NSA.
“I’ll
talk about what I know, which is offense,” Miller said to his audience at
Defcon.
He
explained how targeted computers can be exploited through previously unknown
vulnerabilities, but the most revealing part of his presentation was how
hackers could easily rout their attack to frame another country.
“Maybe a
computer from China is attacking
you but really that computer is some Russian dude who’s logged into that
computer,” he said. “So you can’t tell if it was Russia or China.”
”On
the opposite side, it will make attribution really hard for your opponent
because you’ll be able to attack from a thousand different places, and from all
over the world and they’re not going to know who you are,” he added.
Miller
also mentioned the strategy of dominating cyberspace by controlling as many
computer devices around the world as possible, which is a key tactic of the NSA
based on the documents leaked by various whistleblowers.
The
ability to launch cyber attacks from a controlled network in a foreign country,
then attribute the attack to any country or faction which would be hard to
disprove are all qualities desirable for a false flag attack and they are all
within the capabilities of the NSA.
So it’s
not far-fetched to consider the NSA as a potential suspect in the Sony hack
which the
federal government is now blaming on North Korea.
“It’s
easy for attackers to plant false flags that point to North Korea or another nation as the culprit,”
Kim Zetter with Wired
wrote. “And even when an attack appears to be nation-state, it can
be difficult to know if the hackers are mercenaries acting alone or with state
sponsorship””some hackers work freelance and get paid by a state only when they
get access to an important system or useful intelligence; others work directly
for a state or military.”
“Then
there are hacktivists, who can be confused with state actors because their
geopolitical interests and motives jibe with a state’s interests.”
SONY HACK
LINKED TO OBAMA REGIME
December 19, 2014
Sony
Hacking Case Shockingly Linked To Obama Regime
By:
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A new
report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD)
circulating in the Kremlin today states that their new “cyber troops“ division, along with
assistance provided by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), have discovered a “false flag“ Obama regime operation
against the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation designed to cover-up the US
intelligence communities role in
the making of propaganda movies, while at the same time promoting a war against
North Korea.
According
to this report, on 24 November, the US-located television and film
production/distribution unit of Sony (Sony
Pictures Entertainment (SPE) had its computer systems compromised by
the notorious Nigerian 419 email scammers that the Palo Alto Networks famed Unit 42 threat intelligence teamwarned this past summer had evolved from simple phishing scams
to more sophisticated cyber threats that target businesses.
On 21
November, this report continues, these Nigerian 419 hackers sent an email to
Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairwoman Amy Pascal and other executives
that read: “[M]onetary
compensation we want. Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a
whole. You know us very well. We never wait long. You’d better behave wisely.”
Important
to note, MoD analysts in this report note, is that the 21 November email wasn’t
signed by the mysterious GOP or Guardians of Peace, who have since taken credit
for the hack, but by “God’s Apstls,” a
reference that also appeared in one of the malicious files used in the Sony
hack and which is a known religious name used by some Nigerian 419 hackers.
With Sony
refusing to pay the Nigerian 419 hackers, however, this report says, on 24
November these cyber gangsters began publically releasing many of the files
they had stolen, the most damaging to the Obama regime being internal emails
showing that the US State Department and the RAND
Corporation consulted
on and approved a movie called “The Interview“ depicting the
assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
These
leaked emails show that Sony enlisted
the services of Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the RAND
Corporation who specializes in North Korea, in making this assassination movie
and further revealed that Robert King, US special envoy for North Korean
human-rights issues, and Daniel Russel, US Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs were helping to consult on this
film as well.
As to why
the Obama regime would be so involved in making a movie depicting the
assassination of a foreign leader, this MoD report states, can be found in an
email written by the RAND Corporations senior defense analyst Bennett who
worked on this movie and said:
Even
worse, this report warns, is that the fanatical Obama regime war mongers
consulting on this movie are supported by the new US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter,
who in 2006
advocated the bombing of North Korea, and in 2012, along with the
RAND Corporation senior policy analyst Ashley
Tellis, in a conference sponsored by the Asia
Society titled “The U.S. Strategic Rebalance to
Asia: A Defense Perspective“, further advocated to an American “total
war” to gain supremacy in this vital region.
Also to
note about Carter, the SVR in this report notes, was his secret trip to Japan
this past week (under the
guise of his having a mysterious back ailment the Obama regime refused to
comment on) during which he met with top Sony Corporation executives
who agreed not to allow the release of this movie.
And not
just has the Obama regime been successful in keeping from the American people
their role in making this assassination movie, this MoD report continues, they
have also completely taken over the hacking of Sony using their advanced spying
tool Regin, that
according to cyber experts, “displays
a degree of technical competence rarely seen and has been used in spying
operations against governments, infrastructure operators, businesses,
researchers, and private individuals.”
As to the
“technical route” the Obama regime used in completing the hacking of
Sony using Regin, MoD
analysts in this report say, was through their Sony Pictures Belgium location and, perhaps, best explained
by the leakers of Edward Snowden’s documents who wrote:
To why
the Obama regime has taken over the hacking of Sony, this MoD report further
warns, is in order to blame
North Korea for it and then retaliate in kind, an absurd stance that
even some of the world’s top experts are now deriding, including:
Sean
Sullivan, a security adviser at Finnish security firm F-Secure, who said, “There's no direct, hard evidence
that implicates North Korea. There is evidence of extortion (the Nov. 21 email
[to Sony executives which demanded money]) and the hackers only mentioned [the
movie] The Interview after it was brought up in the press, which they then used
to their advantage.”
Robert
Graham, CEO of Atlanta-based Errata Security, who said, “There's
no evidence pointing to North Korea, not even the barest of hints. Some bit of
code was compiled in Korea “” but that's South Korean (banned in North Korea,
[which] uses Chinese settings). Sure, they used threats to cancel The Interview
“” but after the FBI said they might.”
Jeffrey
Carr, founder and CEO of Seattle cyber security consulting firm Taia Global,
who said, “Is North
Korea responsible for the Sony breach? I can't imagine a more unlikely
scenario.”
Notwithstanding
the truth, however, this report concludes, the American people will
nevertheless be led into another disastrous Obama regime war even though George Friedman,
the founder and CEO of the global intelligence company Stratfor,
known as “Shadow CIA“, warned this past week that the evidence proves
that the Obama regime plotted the deadly coup which took place in Ukraine in
February 2014 in response to Russia’s policy in Syria, and which to
date has cost
nearly 5,000 lives.
December
19, 2014 © EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its
entirety is granted under the condition it is linked back to its original
source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed
underCC-BY and GFDL.
Ramey comments:
It is next to impossible for the average
citizen, (whether American, Laotian, Chinese or Indonesian), to comprehend the
utter depravity of governments, both past and present. Governments have kept the masses in
the dark for the purpose of control. Control is passed down through ruling
families and the connecting links are not always obvious.
We are looking at the deception today that is
to bring about the end of this age in which the Elohim intervene into world
affairs in order to keep planet earth from being destroyed by minions of Satan
the devil. All the kingdoms
of this world are owned by him as we can see in Luke 4. His dominion on planet earth is just
before being terminated and he will be replaced as we can see in Daniel 7:13-14.
We are currently in the countdown to that
event and planet earth will be restructured politically, economically,
geographically and religiously. This
has been fore- told
by the prophets in considerable detail.
Today's world is built on myths such as
santa, the easter bunny and Columbus discovered America. Few have an interest in debunking
these myths because it would be too painful. It amounts to what we see in Jeremiah
16:19 --- "We have inherited lies from our fathers". Have we the mental agility to see
this, accept this and incorporate it into our lives? Or are we bound to the prophecy of
Hosea 4:6 which says: "My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge".
The next few weeks and/or months will bring a
change in the way of life in the U.S. which is unanticipated. The collapse of the U.S. economy
has already begun. There is no Robin Hood to come to our rescue. Our policies
of dishonesty
have come to maturity. The
fruits of idolatry have ripened and we are just before joining the list of
nations that once were. And
if this sounds like "doomsdaying", then perhaps you should watch the
"unalienable prophets" blog in the coming weeks in order to see
"“¦the rest of the story".
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