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Attack on North Korea

Boxing Rumble_B

Date (as written)
1/1/2008
Victim country
US / N Korea
Actors (as written)
initiator code 2
Source
Dyadic Cyber Incident Dataset v2
Publically available sources claim that US defensive reverse botnet campaign, honeypot of potential initiators deflected and botnet back to the original source
https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/snowdens-new-revelations-dominance-cyberspace/#gref
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/nsa-secretly-hijacked-existing-malware-to-spy-on-n-korea-others/?comments=1&post=28312161
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/314511/Cyber-Reports-2018-03.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23123964