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In November 2014, a nation-state reached into a Hollywood studio and burned its network to the ground. This is the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, told for your ears. It began with one email in September, disguised as an advertising video, and two quiet months in which the attackers learned the name of nearly every machine on the network. Then, on November 24, the Guardians of Peace lit up every screen and a wiper erased thousands of computers at once. It was not ransomware. It was built only to destroy. We walk through how it happened: spear phishing, dwell time, the theft of 47,000 employees' records, the road to North Korea's Lazarus Group, and a motive stranger than any of it: a comedy film. And the coincidence at the center, the audit that named the gaps, arrived the same day the attack did. From Zero Day Logs.
By ZDLIn November 2014, a nation-state reached into a Hollywood studio and burned its network to the ground. This is the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, told for your ears. It began with one email in September, disguised as an advertising video, and two quiet months in which the attackers learned the name of nearly every machine on the network. Then, on November 24, the Guardians of Peace lit up every screen and a wiper erased thousands of computers at once. It was not ransomware. It was built only to destroy. We walk through how it happened: spear phishing, dwell time, the theft of 47,000 employees' records, the road to North Korea's Lazarus Group, and a motive stranger than any of it: a comedy film. And the coincidence at the center, the audit that named the gaps, arrived the same day the attack did. From Zero Day Logs.