Sony hackers alive and well, say Kaspersky and AlienVault

The attackers behind the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 are alive and well and still hacking, according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and AlienVault Labs.

Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, senior security researcher at Kaspersky, and Jaime Blasco, head of the intelligence and research team at AlienVault, have been gathering evidence of malicious activity against other victims which they say makes a strong link to the actors behind the Sony attack.

The researchers presented their work at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. In an article in Wired, the pair detail a number of links between the Sony attack and subsequent attacks against organisations in South Korea.

Although the US government blamed the Sony hack on agents from North Korea, the researchers from Kaspersky and AlienVault refused to endorse this view, saying that attribution was inherently unreliable. For the full article click here 

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