2018 is how to track network attacks to hackers in Russia

Korea Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics opening and organizers during the opening ceremony of the computer system was hacked. The cyber attack destroyed the Winter Olympics site, the venue broadcast system and the system, many are unable to attend the opening ceremony of the printed e-ticket, the venue led to the emergence of a large number of empty seats.

Russia was banned because of doping scandals the Winter Olympics, Russian athletes and the IOC to allow competition in their personal capacity. US intelligence officials believe the attack was the initiator behind the Russian hackers. "Connection" published a long article , the disclosure of how the Winter Olympics cyber attacks are traced to Russian hackers.

Any Korea cyber attack occurs, it is usually the primary suspect North Korea, but North Korea is the time to show goodwill gesture, even he sent his sister Kim Jong-un as the ambassador to participate in the Winter Olympics, so why should North Korea undermine the atmosphere of it? Another suspect is Russia, and Russia clearly has good reason to launch a cyber attack. But evidence?

FireEye security researcher employed by the Michael Matonis noticed when analyzing Word documents with embedded malicious programs attacker used open source called PowerShell Empire to create the document. By a similar document, he found the attacker left fingerprints, the 2016 US presidential election hackers, 2017 attacks against the LGBT community of Ukraine are different series, has been tracked to a department of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.

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