The US Federal Bureau of Investigation as issued a confidential warning those cyber-hackers could be targeting US businesses with malicious malware that could obliterate data and make it virtually impossible to recover.
The five-page warning comes on the heels of confirmation that the FBI is indeed looking into last week’s break-in to the computer network of Sony Pictures. The hack into Sony caused the entertainment and communications company to close down its corporate office network during the attack. In additions several Sony films not-yet released to the public were leaked on-line.
The FBI warning did not specify exactly which US businesses should be on high alert. They did, however, offer some of the technical details about the destructive software and included advice on how to deal with an attack.
High on the list of usual suspects is North Korea. The totalitarian government’s reaction to the planned release of an upcoming Sony movie on Christmas Day was that it is an “undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war.”
The movie, called “The Interview” is about a plot by the CIA to assassinate the leader of North Korea.
Officials from N. Korea wrote letters to the UN Secretary General and to President Obama requesting that the film be prevented from being released. When asked if N. Korea was involved in the cyber-attack on Sony the reply from the spokesman was only, “wait and see.”
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