North Korea attacks its enemies with computer games

South Korean authorities are warning their citizens about a possible cyber attack from North Korea. Insidious Kim Jong-un reached the dearest that most South Koreans have - their computer games.

The National Security Agency of South Korea has registered numerous cases of infection of user computers with a new type of virus, which, apparently, was created in North Korea. Considering that in the totalitarian kingdom of Kim Jong-un, he and some other people close to him have computers, it seems very unlikely that these viruses were written by some peasants who cultivate rice for the blessing of the leader all day and night.

The virus is distributed in a rather simple way: with the help of distributions of various computer games. Given that South Korea is the world leader in the number of professional cyber-sportsmen, almost everyone here plays in one form or another.

After infecting a computer, the virus collects some personal information about the user, including its IP address, and sends it to an external server located in North Korea. Of course, the virus also leaves the possibility to remotely monitor the actions of the user. Among other things, an infected computer becomes part of a network that can be used as a generator of DDoS attacks on various sites and services of national importance.

The authorities warned their citizens that everyone, without exception, needs to check their systems for viruses and Trojans. In case of their detection, you need to create a backup copy of important data, and then completely format the hard disk of your computer.

It would seem that only a couple of days ago, thousands of people suffered from a fake copy of a non-existent version of GTA 5 for PC, and North Korean’s perfidious special services have already taken this method of cyber-espionage into circulation. Be careful and carefully check the distributions of the computer games you download for viruses and Trojans. You do not want Kim Jong-un to read your mail?

Based on materials arirang.co.kr

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