Regardless of whether you think the attack against Sony in late 2014 was committed by North Koreans in order to stop a movie, there is new evidence that links the perpetrators to several other large attacks, including the phishing campaign using Samsung’s messenger app My Single Messenger.
The attackers — still at large — breached Sony’s networks, stole massive amounts of data, publicly dumped emails and sensitive employee data, and damaged systems badly enough that it cost Sony an estimated $35 million in IT repairs. After the U.S. government and other experts pointed fingers at North Korea, the attackers ceased their public taunting and disappeared from sight.
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