North Korea Online Amid 'Proportional Response' Speculation

Ten hours after North Korea’s fragile and limited Internet connectivity disappeared on Monday, the isolated country was back online last night. While that much is certain, it’s still unknown who was behind the outage and why. Naturally, after promising on Friday a “proportional response,” immedia...

BitTorrent Invites Sony to Release 'The Interview' Movie On Its Paid Service

Sony was forced to pull the cinema release of "The Interview," scheduled for Christmas day, after hacker group Guardians of Peace GOP threatened to attack any theater that decided to show the film. But the studio will release the controversial North Korean-baiting film via different alternatives...

DHS Releases Destover Wiper Malware Indicators of Compromise

US-CERT released a not-so-cryptic advisory this weekend providing enterprises with indicators of compromise and detailed descriptions of the malware used against “a major entertainment company,” the Department of Homeland Security’s description of Sony Pictures Entertainment. DHS describes in gre...

FBI Officially Blames North Korea in Sony Hacks

The FBI announced today that it has gathered enough evidence to say with certainty that the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is in fact responsible for recent intrusions into the networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE. This fact was all but officially stated yesterday...

Dave Aitel on the Sony Hack

Dennis Fisher talks with Dave Aitel of Immunity about the Sony hack, who he believes is responsible for it, what the consequences are and what the attack could mean for the way the U.S. government and private companies think about security in the future. Download: digitalunderground175.mp3 Music ...

US Government: North Korea Behind Sony Hack

The United States government is expected to attribute the damaging and embarrassing hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment to the government of North Korea. Various mainstream media outlets quoting anonymous government sources said North Korea is “centrally involved” in the attack, which NBC News sa...

Sony Hackers Threaten 9/11 Type Attack at Theaters Showing 'The Interview' Movie

The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has yet exposed about 200 gigabytes of confidential data belonging to the company from upcoming movie scripts to sensitive employees data, celebrities phone numbers and their travel aliases, and also the high-quality versions of five...

Sony Warns Employees Health Information May Have Been Compromised

Sony Pictures Entertainment has sent a letter to employees warning them that, along with huge amounts of corporate and employee information, some personal health data belonging to SPE employees may also have been compromised in the attack that hit the company in late November. The letter, which...

Mike Mimoso and Dennis FIsher Discuss the Sony Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the details of the Sony breach, including the question of attribution, Sony’s response to the attack, media outlets publishing the stolen data and the rise of destructive malware attacks. Download: digitalunderground174.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Las Vegas Sands' Casino Network hit by Destructive Malware

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack that started at the end of the last month and so far has caused a severe damage to its reputation as well as resources, from internal system shutdown to upcoming movies and scripts leak. Now, a similar cyber attack against Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp has...

New Version of Destover Malware Signed by Stolen Sony Certificate

Researchers have discovered a new version of the Destover malware that was used in the recent Sony Pictures Entertainment breaches, and in an ironic twist, the sample is signed by a legitimate certificate stolen from Sony. The new sample is essentially identical to an earlier version of Destover...

Sony Pictures Employees Receive Threatening Email After Hack

The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment have reached a totally unbelievable and scary phase as multiple media sources are saying that Sony Pictures employees received e-mails from hackers threatening to harm them and their family members. Said one employee, "It's really cra...

Destover Wiper Malware Analysis

Researchers are starting to stitch together clues about the wiper malware that has landed a body blow to Sony Pictures Entertainment. Not only were thousands of files and documents leaked that included unreleased movies, confidential company presentations and financial records, employee records,...

Sony Employee Payroll, Healthcare Information, Leaked

As expected, the Sony Pictures breach has unearthed more than just unreleased, pirated movies. A slew of sensitive employee information is also making the rounds online, and at one point it appears servers belonging to Sony were helping pass the information around. It had been widely speculated...

FBI Flash Warning Alerts Businesses to Wiper Malware Attacks

The FBI issued a five-page flash warning yesterday urging American enterprises to be on the lookout for wiper malware. The alert, a Reuters report said, described some details about the malware but kept the victim anonymous. It’s general practice for the FBI not to name victims in such alerts. Th...

F.B.I., Mandiant Investigating Sony Pictures Breach

Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE is continuing to investigate a potentially massive breach that last week compromised most of the company’s systems and leaked several films online, some which haven’t even been released in theaters yet. Officials from the FBI and experts with Mandiant, FireEye’s...

Unreleased Sony Pictures Movies Leaked Online After Sony Hack Attack

Following the last week's massive hack attack on Sony Pictures' network by a group calling themselves "GOP," or Guardians of Peace, high-quality versions of several of the studio's newest films have hit piracy websites. It seems like matters for Sony Pictures is getting worse with time. Sony...

Sony Pictures Dealing With Apparent Network Compromise

Sony Pictures Entertainment is still in the process of trying to recover from an apparent compromise of some of the company’s computer systems. The attack first came to light on Monday, and the extent of the incident is still emerging. The compromise appears to affect just the networks at SPE, a...

Sony Pictures HACKED; Studio-Staff Computers Seized by Hackers

It’s a bad day for Sony yesterday!! Sony appears to be hacked once again by hackers, but this time not its PlayStation, instead its Sony Pictures Entertainment – the company’s motion picture, television production and distribution unit. According to multiple reports, the corporate computers of So...

Sony Xperia Devices Secretly Sending User Data to Servers in China

If you own a Sony smartphone either the Android 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 KitKat firmware then inadvertently you may be transmitting your data back to the servers in China, even if you haven’t installed any application. Quite surprising but it’s true. I know many of you haven’t expected such practices from ...