'Cyber ​​attack Play was' false flag ''

pyeongchang - The cyber attack on the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was a feint. The perpetrators pretended to be North Korean, Russian and Chinese hackers, says security guard Kaspersky. The Russian company says not to know who is behind the attack. You occur as someone else is called a 'false flag'.

The attack was carried out with a malicious program (malware) called Olympic Destroyer. As a result, the Wi-Fi connection fell out during the opening ceremony and some screens did not. An Olympic site was also out of the air, so that onlookers could not print tickets. At the ski slopes in the area, gates and lifts no longer worked.

The Olympic Games were in South Korea, so archenemy North Korea was immediately named as possible perpetrator. Russia was also mentioned, because that country was not allowed to participate independently in the Games.

In the malware, according to Kaspersky, a code was found that is widely used by Lazarus, a shadowy hacker group that is associated with North Korea. Lazarus would also be responsible for WannaCry hostessing software, a major break-in at Sony and a few large digital bank robberies. In addition, Olympic Destroyer would have found traces of the presumably Russian group Fancy Bear and the Chinese cyberpion groups Gothic Panda, Menu Pass and IXESHE. According to Kaspersky, those 'fingerprints' were deliberately used 'to give hunters the impression that they had found evidence so that they would be taken from the path to the real perpetrator. '

Another security guard, Talos, had also said earlier that traces of Russian and North Korean codes had been found. However, the indications are very weak and there is no conclusive evidence, the company warned. Talos also warned that the attack might well be a 'false flag'.