Jun Ji-hye, a reporter at the finance desk of The Korea Times, focuses primarily on economic policy and government agencies, mainly covering the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Budget and Planning, the National Tax Service and the Korea Customs Service. She previously covered financial authorities, including the Financial Services Commission and the Financial Supervisory Service, and earlier worked on the political, city and business desks, reporting on a wide range of issues.
'Anonymous' threatens hacking on N. Korea on June 25
By Jun Ji-hye
The hacking group Anonymous said Sunday its planned cyber attack against North Korea to gain access to its secret national intelligence including missile data will not destroy its intranet.
The group gave notice in April that it will attack the North’s websites at noon on June 25 (Korean time), the anniversary of the start of the Korean War (1950-1953).
“The purpose of this attack is to divulge information of the Stalinist state as well as to allow North Korean residents’ access to the Internet,” the hacker with the Twitter ID @Anonsj told Yonhap news agency.
The North currently allows only a few privileged class members access to the Internet.
The hacker insisted he built a “Ninja Gateway,” which he says is a path connecting the inside network in the isolated country and the external network.
“So we can approach their intranet from computers outside of the North,” the hacker said, without further elaboration about how the inside and external networks have been connected and whether the group has any of its members operating from within North Korea.
The hacker once again confirmed the group will carry out attacks against 46 websites operated by the North including the Korean Central News Agency and the main propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri on the scheduled day.
“We will use DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks to paralyze functions of those websites and steal secret data.”
He added if the North accepts at least one of the group’s requirements such as a complete suspension of their nuclear weapons program and threats, and the resignation of young leader Kim Jong-un, the group might have a change of heart.
The hacker added that the group also plans to disclose some selected documents among thousands of the North’s internal materials that the group has already acquired through previous hacking attacks on that day.
“We won’t disclose content that is expected to create a huge stir. We will hand over what is not made public this time to Wikileaks,” he said.