Despite the recent allegations that the Russians were attempting to corrupt voting software at a specific company (and failed), they are not the world’s best hackers or cyber attackers, at all.<\/p>\n
No, that dubious honor belongs entirely to the Norks.\u00a0 Per the article in Foreign Policy\u2019s most recent edition, you barely even need a computer to do what the Norks do to get what they want. http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/06\/05\/north-korea-proves-you-barely-need-computers-to-win-a-cyberwar\/<\/a><\/p>\n To quote the authors (Moore and Corrado) of that article: \u201cEvidence is mounting that the perpetrator of last month\u2019s WannaCry cyberattack that paralyzed 300,000 computers in 150 countries was North Korea\u2019s hacker army, a highly sophisticated network of hackers trained to compromise foreign militaries, corrupt network systems, and conduct cyberheists of financial institutions. It may seem strange that a country as underdeveloped as North Korea has decided to invest its meager resources in such high-tech capabilities. It shouldn\u2019t. Cyberspace has long been North Korea\u2019s preferred battlefield precisely because of its own developmental weaknesses.\u201d<\/p>\n They go on to say that Norkiland uses the Chinese method of finding the best candidates to be hackers, termed \u2018a thousand grains of sand\u2019. \u00a0This was also the Soviet method for winning in Olympic sports.<\/p>\n In 1986, North Korea hired 25 Russian instructors in cybernetics (computer science, to the uninformed) and subsequently began identifying grade school-level children to train in fine art of hack attacks. \u00a0There are at least 5,900 skilled cyber hackers working for the Nork government on nothing else.<\/p>\n Norkiland is also the prime suspect in the recent theft of $81 million from Bangladesh\u2019s central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City.<\/p>\n They are, in fact, suspects in such things as a 2003 major power outage in the US, and may even be the source of the fake FBI Moneypak ransomware virus which hit a lot of people starting in 2012, including me. That virus cost me a pretty penny to have it removed from my computer, and yes, I did call the FBI and yell at them about it. They were quite humble and told me to report it, which I did. But it\u2019s still going on, attacking Androids and other platforms. If the Norks were not behind it, I\u2019d be surprised.<\/p>\n