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So I suppose there's a chance you did not pick up on this headline.

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I'm going to tell you a story of a independent hacker who became suddenly a revenge hacker.

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This was as reported in the let's see, this was the May 2022 issue of Wired magazine.

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So what happened was this independent hacker who goes by the name P for X, he ended up being hacked

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by a North Korean nation state sponsored hacker.

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And he got all kinds of angry about this.

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He had been tipped off to watch for these attacks as I forget what entity had tipped him off.

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But he had been tipped off that the North Korean nation state actors were going after independent hackers

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like himself.

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He ended up opening up malware that was disguised in another tool that he was sent.

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He did say that all of that was done in a VM in a sandboxed environment, so no one ever got any data

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from him or anything like that.

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But it really made him angry.

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So what then transpired?

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He was speaking to the FBI and he was speaking to other agencies and no one was doing anything.

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So he really got angry and took matters into his own hands.

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He wanted North Korea to know that that there would be, you know, push back if these independent hackers

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were attacked like this.

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It's just a fascinating story.

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So PS4 X then began going after vulnerability scans big time on a lot of their key network equipment.

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What do you think?

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He found plenty of vulnerabilities.

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And so in January of 2022, he successfully launched a denial of service attack that brought down their

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Internet.

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And they, of course, for many of their internal citizens, it's a intranet, really, as they are

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prohibited from visiting maybe all but one or two websites that are truly public.

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But anyways, their entire infrastructure for both the Internet controlled intranet and Internet went

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down.

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And it was fascinating because obviously we have our own cyber intelligence agents.

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They're monitoring things like that North Korean network.

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They saw that, oh, they must be being attacked by some other country.

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And then they realized, wait a minute, it's an American in his slippers.

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In pajamas, he said he binged alien movies, the Alien series, as he was doing all this pretty funny.

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So classic act of revenge that had huge consequences in this case for an entire country.