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The FBI has alerted businesses to destructive cyber attacks, after Sony Pictures was hacked last week allowing Brad Pitt's film Fury to be illegally downloaded 1.5 million times.
Four unreleased films have also been made available on the internet since the attack on Monday, including a remake of 1982 musical Annie and Mr Turner, a biopic about the eccentric British painter.
A group calling themselves Guardians of Peace froze Sony Pictures' computer systems worldwide, posting a message that warned it would release 'top secrets' unless its 'request be met'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2856761/FBI-warns-destructive-malware-wake-Sony-attack.html
FBI steps in to warn businesses of 'destructive' attack by hackers, as it emerges that Brad Pitt's Fury has been illegally downloaded 1.5MILLION times since it was stolen in Sony Pictures hack
The FBI is investigating the cyber attack on Sony Pictures last week
Annie remake and Fury are among five features leaked online from Sony
North Korea has since refused to deny involvement in the the breach
A group called Guardians of Peace has claimed responsibility for the attack
Cyber attackers warned they could release ' top secrets' from their servers
By Reuters and Ap and Josh Gardner for MailOnline and Annabel Grossman for MailOnline
Published: 18:26 EST, 1 December 2014 | Updated: 16:15 EST, 2 December 2014
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Cybersecurity experts said the malicious software described in the alert appeared to describe the one that affected Sony, which would mark first major destructive cyber attack waged against a company on U.S. soil. Such attacks have been launched in Asia and the Middle East, but none have been reported in the United States. The FBI report did not say how many companies had been victims of destructive attacks.
“I believe the coordinated cyberattack with destructive payloads against a corporation in the U.S. represents a watershed event,” said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer with security software maker Trend Micro Inc. “Geopolitics now serve as harbingers for destructive cyberattacks.”
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The report said the malware overrides all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up.
“The overwriting of the data files will make it extremely difficult and costly, if not impossible, to recover the data using standard forensic methods,” the report said.
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Monday’s FBI report said the attackers were “unknown.”
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The technical section of the FBI report said some of the software used by the hackers had been compiled in Korean, but it did not discuss any possible connection to North Korea.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/
FBI warns of ‘destructive’ malware in wake of Sony attack
By Reuters
New York Post
December 1, 2014 | 10:58pm
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