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North Korea's state broadcast KCTV on Monday aired the images that it said showed the regime's supreme leader paying close attention to the development of various defense capabilities. The footage showed Kim testing a sniper rifle and driving an armored personnel carrier at undisclosed locations, reportedly all last year.
Pyongyang has taken a notably hard line toward its neighbor to the south in recent months in light of Seoul's decision to openly strengthen defense ties with treaty ally the United States as well as Japan.
On Monday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported the successful test-firing of a ballistic missile carrying a hypersonic warhead. It followed a record number of missile launches last year as Kim significantly ramped up pressure on the South.
KCTV and KCNA are yet to directly reference Kim's inspection of North Korea's drones, which bear a visual resemblance to the U.S. Air Force's RQ-Q Global Hawk and MQ-9 Reaper UAVs, which are developed by U.S. defense contractors Northrop Grumman and General Atomics, respectively.
The pair of drones were first seen at an arms exhibition and military parade held last July. Like its American counterpart, the Saetbyul-4, which shares the Global Hawk's bulging fuselage design, is a reconnaissance aircraft. The Saetbyul-9, like the Reaper, is an attack drone.
Joseph Dempsey, a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank in London, said in an analysis last August that the Saetbyul UAVs, despite their resemblance to the U.S. aircraft, likely fall short when it comes to comparable capabilities.
Dempsey speculated that the historical defense technology relationship between North Korea and Iran means Tehran likely shared insights with Pyongyang about the Global Hawk, one of which was shot down by Iranian air defense forces in 2019 over the Strait of Hormuz.
Analysts at 38 North, a prominent North Korean monitoring group, expressed similar skepticism about Pyongyang's drone clones compared to the American originals. However, even if less advanced, deploying these UAVs in substantial numbers could provide North Korea with a strategic advantage, according to a report published last August.
On Tuesday, KCNA said the North Korean parliament had approved the abolishment of several agencies meant to facilitate inter-Korean reconciliation, including the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification, the equivalent to South Korea's Unification Ministry.
Aadil Brar is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers international security, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian security. Aadil previously reported for the BBC World Service. He holds degrees from the University of British Columbia and SOAS, University of London. Send tips or suggestions to Aadil at a.b...@newsweek.com.
Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] Ransomware hits Spanish companies. Pegasus continues to excite controversy in India. TikTok applies for Big Tech's good citizen Club but has apparently so far been blackballed. Booz Allen offers nine predictions for 2020. And good dogs go after bad guys' data storage devices.
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Dave Bittner: [00:01:39] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner, with a little bit of a cold, with your CyberWire summary for Tuesday, November 5, 2019. Ransomware has hit Spain. Reuters reports that a ransomware attack hit the country's largest radio station, Cadena SER, yesterday. National service was disrupted, but local broadcasting continued without interruption. It's unknown what strain of ransomware was involved in the attack. SER is working toward recovery. Spain's national security department said that other unspecified companies were affected by similar attacks. The agency said that SER had disconnected its major systems from its networks, and it recommended that other organizations similarly affected do likewise. Bleeping Computer says it's obtained a leaked copy of a ransom note that confirms that NTT Data subsidiary Everis was one of the officially unnamed companies that were also hit.
Dave Bittner: [00:02:37] One of Spain's larger managed service providers, Everis is thought to have been infected with a variant of Bitpaymer ransomware. The extortionists have asked the MSP for just under $836,000 in ransom, Bitcoin.es reports. Other enterprises are concerned about the possibility of downstream attacks flowing from those affecting the widely used MSP. Bleeping Computer cites an anonymous source close to those investigating the incident as saying that the extortionists may have exploited the BlueKeep vulnerability in their attack. But the grounds for this suspicion may be circumstantial. The advice to disconnect systems is being read by more than a few observers as an indication that there's a worm involved, and the wormhole of the day is, of course, BlueKeep.
Dave Bittner: [00:03:25] The list of those WhatsApp warned of possible Pegasus infections strikes many in India as suggesting that the spyware was distributed by the government. India's government, the BBC reports, denies any such involvement in the incident. The Scroll describes the activists, lawyers and scholars whose devices were affected. WhatsApp's litigation against NSO Group is proceeding in a U.S. court, but Reuters reports that an activist lawyer has petitioned India's supreme court to direct the country's counterterrorism agency to open an investigation into not only NSO Group but also WhatsApp and its corporate parent, Facebook. One of the matters at issue is said to be a claim that the app's encryption isn't up to snuff.
Dave Bittner: [00:04:08] The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok remains the subject of a U.S. security investigation, and the Defense Department is considering how to educate military personnel about the risks the app might pose, Military Times reports. TikTok seems destined for the Huawei/ZTE treatment from Washington, and it's displaying the kind of preemptive good corporate citizenship the two hardware giants used in their own charm offensives. In TikTok's case, the social medium has applied to join the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a club to which Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Dropbox, Amazon, LinkedIn and WhatsApp currently belong. The Hill says that the forum has so far declined to admit TikTok, probably over concerns surrounding the company's data collection and censorship practices. But you can't blame 'em for trying.
Dave Bittner: [00:05:00] Booz Allen today released its predictions for the major threat trends of 2020. They call out nine of these. First, the global balkanization of technology, by which they mean such government policies as Roskomnadzor's movement toward creating an autarkic Russian internet and Moscow's offers to create similar national internet infrastructures for the BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - as well as an alternative domain name system. Second, they see the clones and counterfeits posing a growing threat to supply chains. Third, the swiftly increasing rates at which automobiles generate data will prove, they say, irresistible to cybercriminals. They expect the hoods to work hard at stealing information from cars and monetize that information as they have other categories of data. And a similar development, the proliferation of drones as business tools, will, in Booz Allen's fourth prediction, increase many businesses' attack surfaces. A lot of Bluetooth exploits, for example, work only if you're close to the targets. And drones will, they say, make for a new generation of war driving.
Dave Bittner: [00:06:08] Fifth, since satellites are becoming more enmeshed with terrestrial IT, the study predicts more cyberattacks against satellites. Consider the ubiquity of GPS and the arrival of satellite constellations, like Starlink, that will deliver the internet to users on the ground. Sixth, nation-states can be expected to use more of the same attack tools and techniques, and attribution, already difficult, will get tougher. Seventh, threat actors will continue their efforts to interfere with elections by the trolling of opinion by disinformation and by direct attack on election infrastructure. Cyber operations will continue their integration with conventional kinetic military operations. Sometimes, that will offer nation-states a nonlethal option. But - and here's their eighth prediction - at other times, cyberattacks can be expected to prompt kinetic retaliation. And ninth and last, next year, the world will come to Tokyo for the Olympic Games. There won't be any medals in cyber, but the competition can be expected to be fierce. Ourselves, we're pulling for Team Japan on this one.
Dave Bittner: [00:07:15] Finally, the New Yorker this week takes a quick look at how dogs help investigate cybercrime. No, you can't learn to code at obedience school. But on the principle that any cyberspace badness has to manifest itself in some hardware sometime, somewhere, police agencies are training dogs to sniff out electronics to help them find the servers, flash drives, SD cards, GPS units, bitcoin hardware wallets and so forth on which criminal evidence can be found.
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