{"id":135302,"date":"2022-02-07T03:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-lone-hacker-on-a-revenge-mission-says-he-is-the-one-who-keeps-turning-off-north-koreas-internet"},"modified":"2022-02-07T03:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:23:15","slug":"a-lone-hacker-on-a-revenge-mission-says-he-is-the-one-who-keeps-turning-off-north-koreas-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-lone-hacker-on-a-revenge-mission-says-he-is-the-one-who-keeps-turning-off-north-koreas-internet","title":{"rendered":"A lone hacker on a revenge mission says he is the one who keeps turning off North Korea\u2019s internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-lone-hacker-on-a-revenge-mission-says-he-is-the-one-who-keeps-turning-off-north-koreas-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American hacker \u2014 who goes by the handle P4x \u2014 told Wired he was one of the victims of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/north-korea-hackers-target-cybersecurity-researchers\/\">cyberattack last year<\/a> on Western security researchers carried out by North Korean spies. He said he was frustrated that he was a target and that the US appeared to have a lacking response.<\/p>\n<p>He said the hackers tried to snatch hacking tools and information on software vulnerabilities but he was able to stop them before they could get anything worthwhile. Nonetheless, there was a feeling of resentment, he told Wired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like the right thing to do here,\u201d P4x told Wired, adding: \u201cIf they don\u2019t see we have teeth, it\u2019s just going to keep coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American hacker \u2014 who goes by the handle P4x \u2014 told Wired he was one of the victims of a cyberattack last year on Western security researchers carried out by North Korean spies. He said he was frustrated that he was a target and that the US appeared to have a lacking response. He [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}