Nation-state attacks aren’t generally as noisy, or announce themselves with an image of a blazing skeleton posted to infected computers, as occurred in the Sony hack. Nor do they use a catchy nom-de-hack like Guardians of Peace to identify themselves. Nation-state attackers also generally don’t chastise their victims for having poor security, as purported members of GOP have done in media interviews. Nor do such attacks involve posts of stolen data to Pastebin—the unofficial cloud repository of hackers—where sensitive company files belonging to Sony have been leaked. These are all hallmarks of hacktivists—groups like Anonymous and LulzSec, who thrive on targeting large corporations for ideological reasons or just the lulz, or by hackers sympathetic to a political cause.More.
Also, at Twitchy, "MSM reporting that North Korea is behind the Sony hack. But where’s the evidence?":
Good post skeptical about alleged North Korea hack of Sony (TLDR: likely revenge/lulz motivation): http://t.co/PPQobRgnff
— mcantelon (@mcantelon) December 18, 2014
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