Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’

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https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-06-24/alejandro-caceres-the-hacker-who-took-down-north-koreas-internet-from-his-home-my-attack-was-a-response-to-their-attempt-to-spy-on-me.html

Better known as P4x or _hyp3ri0n, this cybersecurity expert was recruited by the US government after his exploit. Disillusioned, he has decided to reveal his identity and continue the fight on his own

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
tl;dr: he DDoS’d all two of North Korea’s routers

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- PaX@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  He rented all types of servers around the country in the cloud and designed a denial of service (DoS) attack
  
  doug-clap What a uniquely skilled individual!
  
  His feat did not go unnoticed. Over the next year he had meetings with officials from the United States Cyber Command, the branch of the armed forces dedicated to this field. He also met with officers from the Marines, the Space Operations Command and intelligence (NSA). Cáceres shared with them the keys to his successful operation and told them that, in his opinion, similar operations could be carried out with small commandos of two to four hackers. That would give them agility, autonomy and the ability to react.
  
  Me, a cyber-commando, dressing up in full tactical gear, ready for anything, for the trip from my gaming chair to my refrigerator to get beer while I watch my rented Azure servers send spam to a small country’s routers
  
  He tried, but failed. “To do anything you need authorization, which takes six months to get. And when you get it, what you wanted to do no longer works. That is the reality here in the U.S.: we have very, very good people working on our cyber defense, but they are hogtied. They can’t do anything, even though I know we have the resources to do a lot.”
  
  Smh our bureaucratic government won’t approve my request to start a war with the DPRK from my couch
  
  If he did this to any other small nation, especially a US-aligned one, he would be charged with a serious crime. The US can’t openly do electronic warfare but they can stand by and watch this clown do what basically amounts to cyber-terrorism, a least for a little while
  
  Anyway, now that he doxxed himself I hope the DPRK actually gives him something to fear lol
  
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- Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What normal people hear: “He took down the routers with some crazy complicated algorithms”
  
  What IT professionals hear: “He hired a bunch of people to keep sending spam letters to their tiny mailboxes until they were so stuffed that they couldn’t receive any legitimate mail.”
  
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Granite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What did you do today? Destroyed the internet of an authoritarian regime, you?

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downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
note to self : do not fuck with alejandro

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- Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Lady Gaga seemed to have a good time of it.
  
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tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Unless things have changed, North Korea doesn’t have a whole lot by way of Internet. I think they used to have two Class C netblocks, 256 IP addresses each.

kagis.

They’re apparently up to four.

As of February 2023 North Korea has four IPv4 subnets, all announced by AS131279, named “Ryugyong-dong”.[52] The subnets are:[53]

175.45.176.0/24 (175.45.176.0–255)

175.45.177.0/24 (175.45.177.0-255)

175.45.178.0/24 (175.45.178.0–255)

175.45.179.0/24 (175.45.179.0–255)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea

The regime doesn’t like people having access to outside information.

Looks like it’s up to four.

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UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
„We and our 846 partners

Au revoir!

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Hello_there@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Thx op

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Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Florida Man Crashed Internet in All of North Korea

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