President Obama, at the hearing on Friday. / REUTERS / ATLAS
The attack massive multinational computer against Sony Pictures Entertainment and is formally a case of international terrorism that the US give an answer “proportionate”, according to President Barack Obama said Friday. The FBI has confirmed that North Korea is behind the attack. “We have enough to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these acts information” stressed the US agency said in a statement. The massive attack and threats against Sony has resulted in the withdrawal of a film of 44 million, a disturbing precedent not only for corporate security, committed to an aggressiveness never seen before, but for freedom of expression, an aspect in which he recalls the case of the Mohammed cartoons.
“Although the FBI has seen many different computer intrusions, the destructive nature of this attack, along with its coercive nature makes it a special case . The actions of North Korea intended to inflict significant damage to a US company and censor the right of American citizens to express themselves. These acts of intimidation exceed the limits of acceptable behavior of a state, “said the statement federal research agency.
What began as a corporate attack affecting the reputation of Hollywood stars and executives, while unprecedented in its scale and maliciosidad, now has international implications and unpredictable ” reaffirms that cyber threats are one of the most serious threats to US security dangers. ” A group of hackers self-appointed guardians of peace attacked Sony’s servers on November 24, blocked and deleted critical information systems. On December 2, began to put all that information on the Internet, doing untold damage to the reputation and finances of a multinational invoice 8.000 million a year
“We have information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible”
The last step of terror was threatened earlier this week terrorist attacks, specifically mentioning the September 11, 2001, against all cinemas that would project the film Interview , a parody of the North Korean regime in which its leader, Kim Jong-un It is grotesquely killed. The main distributors took seriously these threats and canceled the screening of the film. On Tuesday, Sony decided to cancel undated premiere of Interview , scheduled for December 25 in the US, in an unprecedented move in the industry that has led him to be accused of giving in to terrorist blackmail .
The US president, Barack Obama, picked up the feelings of many when he said Friday at a news conference that Sony’s decision was “a mistake”. He compared it to stop going to a sporting event for the possibility of terrorist attacks. The president said he would have liked that the multinational would have consulted with him before making this decision. “We can not have a society in which a dictator on the other hand starts to impose censorship in the United States.”
Both the FBI and the world’s leading experts on cybersecurity have also followed this unprecedented attack from minute one. Several especalistas had examined the malicious program ( malware ) used by the hackers and had concluded that it had accurate to that used in March 2013 in a similar assault parties, but without the element blackmail against the South Korean banking. Seoul publicly accused North Korea of being behind the attack.
“The tools used in the attack bear resemblance to another attack executed last March by North Korea against banks and South Korean media “says the FBI said in a statement. The US agency has expressed concern about this attack-in which private data such as salaries and social security numbers of employees Sony- “destructive and coercive nature” is revealed. That is, according to the FBI, associated to blackmail and extortion and intended to “infringing material injury to a US company and suppress the right of US citizens to freely express”
Some operators removed the poster of the interview Thursday in Hollywood. / AFP
Among the tests that are explicitly mentioned, researchers have found IP addresses (the number that identifies each computer connected to the internet) associated with North Korea supplied with computers that made the attack.
Kim Song, a member of the North Korean delegation at the United Nations shook Friday the involvement of his country in this case, quoted by Agence France Presse.
As the agency published this statement, FBI officials quoted anonymously by US media said research has also found a connection to China. Cybersecurity experts have always emphasized that the main technical support North Korea in such cases is China. Nothing leaked information, the Chinese Embassy in Washington issued a statement rejecting any “illegal activdad computing” and urges the agency to disclose evidence of this alleged connection.
In the press Obama has said there is no evidence pointing to the involvement of a third country. President and ruling out the involvement of China, the only ally in the international scene that has Pyongyang.
The insistence of both the White House and the FBI in the aftermath of this attack on freedom of expression collect great concern, not only in Hollywood, but in the business world in general, the dangerous precedent that has been sitting with the decision of Sony Pictures not the slightest risk that something could happen in a theater during the screening of his film.
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