North Korea Just Failed Really Hard...

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at a program known as "3CX" which was recently breached by North Korean hackers (or so it's believed) in a supply chain attack. This managed to damage just shy of 10 computers and while it could have been catastrophic it ended up doing nothing in the grand scheme thankfully. Why did they do this? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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Ok

[@jackal253]

For sure

[@bignoobus]

Among us

[@bonbob9512]

i wanna play Yakuza ps2 on my phone

[@courier_06]

No

[@tametalks6102]

as someone who knows nothing about computer code you did a great job explaining what all of this means without having to give me a class on it

[@DontDefuse]

@Chill X fr?

[@MrFunzerker]

@Chill X Bro who is Ordinary Gamer? I only know of SomeOrdinaryGamers.

[@reorders9868]

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[@ToxicFruitSnack]

@@DontDefuse ye

[@MrFunzerker]

Bro left after making a fool of himself LOL. He thought he had dirt on some guy named Ordinary Gamer.

[@ProblematicExistence]

The existence of a hacker collective in North Korea indicates that those involved possess elevated privileges and access to money. It's well known how oppressive and heavy-handed the government there is. In the United States, most hackers are downtrodden and flat broke. I just see that as an odd dynamic.

[@g76agi]

"In the United States, most hackers are downtrodden and flat broke." Uh what? Most "hackers" are either government employed, or criminals, or use their IT prowess to get good jobs

[@damikey18]

Well its one of a few ways that North korea makes its money from doing highly illegal stuff such as using hackers to steal large amounts of cash

[@JunkBondTrader]

"most" are downtrodden. Thing is, the states has both. The downtrodden and then the privelaged, powerful ones.

[@ProblematicExistence]

​@Junk Bond Trader Absolutely true. The US loves to "flip" people. Catch one of the galaxy brains that have managed to get us, and hand them a blank check.

[@ProblematicExistence]

@The wanderer Fact. I'm starting to think I didn't think my statement through very well 🤪

[@evillecaston]

The fact that North Korea is so desperate to hack crypto bros is hilarious and sad at the same time. And now they can't even do that right!

[@AnarchoTak]

unfortunately they are usually successful

[@darianstarfrog]

Couldn't happen to a better group of douches 😂

[@javierpatag3609]

@@AnarchoTak True, but may as well enjoy when they fail.

[@bluephreakr]

Even better - crypto is *tanking* right now. Like what, they're going to steal all of the bitcoin? At the going rate with NFTs and grifts devastating crypto's _overall_ reputation it's becoming next-to-worthless.

[@cherrytheandroid]

@@AnarchoTak Well Crypto bros are taking L's every day so, It's fine lol

[@Rubiktor012]

Muta out here covering cybersecurity topics that could sometimes be considered government secrets. My man.

[@christianthompson7915]

this is what happens when your country supports freedom of speech

[@blackraven8841]

@@christianthompson7915 Canada supports like 70% free speech.

[@krishnabasavaraju2926]

@@christianthompson7915 well its good to bring shit like this to light instead of letting north korea do whatever they want in secret

[@christianthompson7915]

@@blackraven8841 canada has decent freedom of speech laws, the us might be better but canada isn’t too bad

[@bobanmilisavljevic7857]

​@@christianthompson7915 I saw those videos of Canadian police arresting people during the lockdowns. As an American, I like to pass this message.. Let's go Brandeau!

[@Jordan-gb4ex]

Thanks for the great cybersecurity content muta, recently been studying cybersecurity for the security+ certification and having someone covering these topics helps a lot!

[@Zaguzah]

Ditto!

[@chezswing]

Same!

[@GodlyAwesome]

Professer messor on yt is obe of the best resourcws for all CompTIA stuff, used his stuff for the A+ and am currently using it for the NET+, he should have material on the SEC+

[@HastelloyC276]

same here

[@zackrasphodos.2305]

I’d like to imagine that the hackers has also stole scam/meme coins too thinking that it would be easy money but end up getting shafted after stealing coins like save the kids, TITs, etc.

[@balllord3546]

keep imagining then

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

​@@balllord3546 north Korea got owned, get over it

[@shadowgirl00]

So fun story, I book appointments for a living, and my workplace uses 3CX. I was on an airplane going on holidays when this all went down, and I found out about 12 hours later because I often like to listen to Muta and others while I cook. So news about the breach showed up on my feed while I was scrolling while having breakfast. My first thought, well IT is going to have a field day, and my second thought was, I can never leave work without something weird happening.

[@shubashuba9209]

When you said North Korea failed, I was hoping that they accidentally nuked themselves.

[@rabbadoodles4522]

Same lol

[@JustSomeRandomBurger]

Was honestly expecting that. Could still be a possibility 😂

[@Wackaz]

What hit you all in the head as babies to make you Muricans so vehemently and delusionally hateful toward a country YOU have bullied for the last 70+ years?

[@osuplaeyurreallygood]

why are you hoping for the death of millions of innocent people?

[@noboto4686]

I'd still feel bad for the innocent civilians tbh

[@brutaljustin1349]

This is a rare sight to see a well-lit video from Muta.

[@slaps1455]

Muta’s laugh is easily the best intro on YT

[@Booshay__]

Muta, this was super informative. Would love more cybersecurity videos.

[@mr.patriotjol]

Since when did North Korea ever successfully did something

[@jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394]

They are successfully starving themselfs

[@drinkintea1572]

@@jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394 😂

[@Prescott98-M5]

Successful diet plan

[@JustSomeRandomBurger]

@@jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394 skill issue 🤷

[@Masterhitman935]

USD counterfeit.

[@TheOrangeBottleCap]

Honestly glad at this point that Bethesda game modding is so torturous cuz it's taught me how to understand tech speak a little more, then adding running local servers to play multiplayer games solo and watching muta just makes that knowledge even greater cuz now I can actually understand what he's saying without needing to Google definitions

[@TheOrangeBottleCap]

@@codingsafari no you don't, learning how to mod Bethesda games alone was painful and took years to figure out how to press a few buttons while staring at a white screen cuz it doesn't have dark mode and having to boot the game and wait till it crashes and hope that whilst turning on and off mods that the crashing "might" stop (fallout 4 never not crashes and yet remains playable still, I just have to wait till it stops crashing so I can hit load game and then hope it doesn't crash while loading) And then those local servers, literally all of them are built differently so you have to learn different ways to set them up just to not have to play with other people only to get bored of the game around the time you'd restart your progress or lose a lot of progress in order to start over and effectively abandon what you made Just typing that gave me a stress induced headache which is also sleep deprivation induced

[@poisenbery]

DLL's were so mysterious until I started learning how to code. Once I learned about "include" or "import" I understood DLL's

[@kidus_tv]

OMG same bro, I used to find them fascinating when I was learning C++, until I learned they were just libraries 😂

[@Nobody_Fn_Important]

I love your videos, sometimes you warn us about dire threats and like tonight you remind us that sometimes the dire threats are just as threatening to themselves.

[@GOLMONT-rd8hu]

When I see North Korea and Failed in the same video title, I know it's going to be a real treat to watch

[@Wrath003]

Love watching you on my break. Keep up the good work!

[@TheWunder]

I love him more.

[@raybob8668]

What’s your job?

[@heyjeySigma]

@@raybob8668 He is simply "the break man"

[@Wrath003]

@@raybob8668 I'm a kitchen manager for a japanese ramen shop. Whenever I prep or on break I like to watch muta or have him in the background.

[@raybob8668]

Ah cool, I work as a waiter and listen to Muta on break too.

[@Gishshock]

Mutahar laughing. Must be an excellent video.

[@pozowbologi5793]

he laughs in like every video

[@sacxcharine]

@@pozowbologi5793 every video is excellent

[@pozowbologi5793]

@@sacxcharine i knew someone was gonna say that and i couldnt agree more

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

Mutalaugh.gif

[@superalientime3938]

watch the vid before you comment low effort garbage, its not a race

[@chanceneck8072]

It's always astounding to me how much power hackers and programmers really have.

[@AbsoluteDark]

I really do wish for the people of nations like Russia, China, and Korea to be free of their corrupt rulers.

[@theminecraft4202]

hahahahaahaa

[@talimancern7724]

That will never happen because the civilians are cowards or brainwashed.

[@WyattOShea]

@@theminecraft4202 So you think human suffering is funny?. Wow you're a great person..... 🙄. Is it naive? probably but I can't see a reason to not want the bad leaders gone so hopefully good enough leaders could be put in place so the people no longer have to suffer.

[@SH1TPUSHER]

​@@WyattOShea i think it's funny when scammers and hackers are suffering

[@anon_y_mousse]

@Absolute Dark I'd love to see Korea united as one country.

[@cosmicspacething3474]

Someone treated April fools not as a holiday, but as a contest. And they won.

[@culturebreath369]

Always know you're in for a treat when the intro is his evil laugh. 😂❤

[@culturebreath369]

@Chill X no.

[@abyss9316]

I think that's just what North Korea does in general

[@javierpatag3609]

That’s how they get their money now given how isolated and sanctioned they are. I mean, what else do they do? They even make meth and order their diplomats to sell it. That is NOT a joke. They really do.

[@trashboatex]

You know its a banger video when Muta speaks another language at the beginning of the video

[@sxnlarxi8235]

you know it's a good video when muta laughs in the beginning

[@M0rshu64]

Mutahar's sinister chuckle in the beginning makes me think he's the one wjo thwarted Kim Jong Un's hacking escapades.

[@samuelhaidar2580]

Your awesome dude thanks for putting in the work to keep us updated on this kinda stuff. And your honestly more objective than the news.

[@levisallade1976]

A couple schools and even a hospital got hit with some Ransomware last week here in West Virginia. I was thinking that would likely be that an Internet provider got hit, and all the server stacks at the particular location would then get infected. Mutah, if you're reading this, does that make sense, or am I off base?

[@Slavolko]

The schools and hospital were probably infected separated, not through their ISP.

[@robbay8610]

America: This inflation is gonna kill us. Korean hackers: We got you and your crypto

[@BasmatiRice96]

north korea doesnt hack other countries, they earn money in honorable ways! :) (Kim is behind me, help)

[@gearfm1]

Hey Muta! Right on schedule :) I'm watching your videos everyday right before going to sleep. Love your videos!

[@flip_xd]

You give me hope I can learn about coding and how a lot of this stuff works.

[@chanceneck8072]

I wish we could just all live peacefully with each other on Earth.....

[@kadirrangwala]

Thank you for covering this !

[@thomaskok5773]

Is it normal whenever Mutha laughs maniacally, I will follow along unintentionally ??

[@GreasyOaf]

You're so quirky and unique

[@Skept88]

Always enjoy you bro. Thanks!!

[@Lunacy4]

Now this is a certified hashbrown moment

[@thisislilraskal]

I like the wide range of topics you cover on the channel. always interesting and u usually learn something. cheers bro

[@mattigi]

who knew North Korea had enough electricity to power a computer.

[@basurerodej8501]

1:34 The drop sounded like a rickroll

[@UltraSwift]

For those who want to hear more about North Koreas hacks, I suggest the podcast by the BBC called The Lazarus Heist

[@Sonickuforever]

1:34 thought he was about to rickroll us

[@javierrosado611]

Crazy how this video was uploaded on my birthday

[@PocketPixelPortablePower]

Happy birthday dawg

[@citizenvulpes4562]

Happy birthday

[@Liveleakk]

Happy birthday

[@-LFX-]

Happy birthday man!

[@PeekinBlyne]

Happy Birthday 🎂

[@guitarzero1836]

You know it’s gonna be a good vid when muta laughs like that

[@Lvna1]

Still not over you not putting the emerald in the crown in re4. Lost like 30,000 pesatas 😢

[@basil9973]

that evil ass laugh is how you know its going to be a good video

[@BTOptimizer]

My humor is so random that Muta dropping a controller was enough to get a laugh out of me, not the fail from the hackers, but the fucking controller 🤣

[@bigbearcrouse2801]

Another banger Mutta. Thanks!

[@EEFLmao]

When Muta's controller fell to the ground I thought that was a Rick Roll

[@andrewvirtue5048]

Isn't the only people in North Korea capable of hacking having to be in their military / government?

[@javierpatag3609]

EXACTLY.

[@ferretyluv]

Yes.

[@reeyees50]

No

[@ferretyluv]

@@reeyees50 Only elite party members have access to the World Wide Web. The rest of the country has access to the intranet.

[@ladiddas]

This is kind of hilarious, I was just reading up on supply chain attacks from the CompTIA Sec+ book, hopefully getting certified soon!

[@hammondr191887]

I work in commercial millwork and this year alone we have had 3 of our large distributors get hacked

[@jimmynoo]

Never thought I'd see some cyber security talk here. Nice

[@Himmelschenk]

Dude I saw the photo you posted on your twitter the other day... lets just say I totally dont have that bookmarked

[@yungjiggamayne2262]

Muta keep speaking other languages please, your smile contagious af. If the government forced ya to learn French like the rest of us you should flex the trilingual status

[@LittleHerdaz]

Ah Muta's chuckle brightens my Saturday 🥰

[@ricenoodles632]

Why did I think he was speaking Korean at the 0:03 mark

[@apwkastmaster2096]

Great info Ty SIR.

[@thephilosopher7173]

Honestly I can see why these videos get repetitive, but I'm ngl I still like hearing about news like this.

[@porkyV2]

ok, you're the 3rd channel i had to re-subscribe to this week. damn..

[@Gigachad094]

Love your videos bro ❤

[@Franck_Major_X]

Oh well, that explains the very aggressive ETH phishing emails I have been receiving lately. Well, until 2 weeks ago. I blocked them and reported them to silence the emails since it was annoying.

[@Trigger1721]

Honestly, even with false positives, I prefer not to risk it and just delete things entirely if Microsoft or my other security scan picks it up.

[@Unclean666]

I'm old and I remember the day McAfee murdered everyone's Office applications. Normally I'm all for that, but when our EMR ran Access as a front end (yay legacy crap!) it made for a fun day. However F the dude who plugged in his laptop with a manual IP matching our DC. He was my bosses bosses boss. We contemplated beating his ass, no cameras in the IT dungeon 😁

[@Yezpahr]

8:45 I like how Western-Sahara in particular is even marked as being excluded from the cyberwar. A quirky detail.

[@AlexanderKuznetsovAKASergei]

I'm surprised and amused the North Korean hackers bothered to design their own logo.

[@meqativ]

i LOVED the right click at 3:28

[@XXMatt0040XX]

It's good to spread information that North Korea is capable of something like this. As silly as it is I've never considered cyber attacks from them because all I hear about is nuclear weapons

[@Stoiss]

I was so sure we we're going to get Rick Rolled when he dropped that controller at 1:35 - Just listen to the sound it made... 😅😅😂😂

[@felixweetbix]

I'm pretty sure one of those web browsers you listed is actually a movie about a young Scottish girl that turns her mother into a bear. I may be wrong.

[@harleymitchelly5542]

Brave is a browser in addition to a movie.

[@ytnathandude]

anytime muta starts his vid laughing his ass off you know the vid is gonna be good

[@Nik-lf4rw]

love you muta stay well thanks for the informative videos :)

[@void_box]

"North Korea just failed really hard." "Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes."

[@JoshCaelum]

I get so excited when a new cybersecurity video is released from Muta.

[@dudynator1]

Impressive how you can convey such topics in a way average people like me can understand with some good laughs 😃

[@RWAsur]

Thank you Mutahar.

[@charliekelly735]

This is all fun and games until you realize that some North Korean hackers are getting executed

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

If I may bring up the Archer quote for the umpteenth time: "Relax, it's North Korea. The nation state equivalent of the short bus."

[@bigbaffo9441]

Everytime when muta laughs, then you know somethings spicy is cooking.

[@drtoxiccookie]

Always enjoy your videos very interesting

[@acole5975]

As much as I am happy to see the north Korean hackers fail on a big scale I also feel sorry for them. Those hackers are about to end up in a multi generational prison camp.

[@jgueroz71]

Just remember, mutahar would never unalive himself

[@Travsticles88]

Thank god for muta and the crater bags in his eyes and sleepless nights to bring us these informative videos What would we do without him

[@original4046]

They've been so quiet lately I forgot they existed

[@JunkBondTrader]

exactly what they want. They dont care about the outside world. Everything they do is designed to oppress their people and empower their regime. They want the world to leave them alone, and forget about them/

[@Railfan_Reed]

L North Korea

[@kevinross6235]

I don't go out my way to read about this kind of thing, but since Muta made a video about it I have to watch it bc I find it interesting

[@bfbros3737]

I hate to say it but first Edit: Thank God, North Korea is finally screwing up

[@henvdemon]

be funny if NK is actually playing the distraction to keep eyes off China and russia for the time being.

[@bfbros3737]

@Muh Election was stolen I mean publicly

[@uncommonsense360]

I'm glad we have Mudahar on our side.

[@OverAndOverAndOver]

Common Kim L

[@P4INKiller]

Mutahard's smile at the beginning of the video brightened my day.

[@kaiishkaiish]

North Korea can’t stop taking L’s lol

[@JunkBondTrader]

lol... That's what you seem to think. North Korea is exactly how it wants to be.

[@ne0nmancer]

@@JunkBondTrader If North Korea was any good, they wouldn't have hackers stealing shitcoins so they can afford to import food from China.

[@pauljackways1473]

When the controller dropped I thought I was getting rickrolled

[@-LFX-]

Mutahar reminds of an old tech support scammer who wanted to get a proper job and life but decided to pick youtube

[@andrewkillian2842]

gotta steer clear of that penetration framework. lol you're so smart mutahar. this is completely over my head

[@donluv-du7kh]

Really shocked at your characterization of Tornado cash, especially as you've usually come off to me as a privacy advocate. As opposed to other mixers, its innovation was providing a way to prove the source of the funds if you choose, i.e. specifically designed for people who have legitimate reasons to want anonymity, but still have the capability to prove origins of income to the tax man (or whoever else). Criminals use the dark web, but so do journalists living under oppressive regimes. Although there is admittedly plenty money laundering in the crypto space, the last reports I saw from Chainalysis put it as proportionally lower to the traditional finance space, even with the KYC and AML processes used in tradfi (traditional finance). Similarly their analysis of Tornado cash put the proportion of illicit funds using the service before the OFAC ban at 30%. You might think that sounds high, but think of the fact that it's only 30% of all the money going through tornado cash seems to be malicious, i.e. 70% are people with just plain old legitimate reasons for wanting privacy from the general public. If those people exit that cash via any fiat off-ramp, they're still gonna have to explain the source of those funds to the tax man. That's not bad when you think of Tornado Cash as a concentration of all the people who care a lot about privacy, which necessarily includes in the set all sophisticated bad actors. So, of the set of all crypto people who care deeply about personal financial privacy, a minority are bad actors. Regarding the OFAC ban of Tornado cash, a new replacement protocol is currently in testing. One of the original devs, Ameen Solemani, has an updated version called Privacy Pools which allows you to create a proof at withdrawal time which provably excludes certains deposit wallets from the set who could be your source of funds. Using that somebody could maintain their privacy, and still generate a proof for OFAC (while remaining anonymous) that their wallet wasn't funded by one of the wallets which did xyz hack associated with North Korea or some such. i.e. there are ways we can have our financial privacy and be against criminals at the same time. Oh, and the reason the website is still up, it's hosted on IPFS, so to remain available all that is needed is for at least 1 IPFS gateway to keep its content ID pinned, and obviously the real meat is the smart contracts which are on chain and immutable. FYI, Ameen Solemani has worked on a bunch of great public goods products. He was one of the people behind spank chain, which was specifically trying to create a payment network and financial services for sex workers (cam girls and such), because even in countries where those services are legal they were having trouble being banked. Largely due to operation choke point 1.0 in which the Obama administration leaned on banks to stop providing services to legal businesses which the administration considered 'dodgy'. i.e. effectively making something illegal while not having to put it on the books. The administration was actually being sued for that before the administration changed and so the operation (and court case) fizzled out.

[@ctznx0]

I had to ctrl-f tornado, and unfortunately this is the only good comment regarding this matter.

[@ferretyluv]

In other words, journalists are laundering money too. I used to be in the North Korea watching community. The Hankyoreh, a news platform made by and for North Korean refugees, doesn’t use bitcoin. LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) don’t use Bitcoin. They just use cash. These oppressive regimes don’t allow journalists access to the internet to get bitcoin. They also can’t exactly spend bitcoin or exchange it for cash to buy stuff like food, so it’s useless to them. The only country that allows that is El Salvador and they’re not having a good time of it. Bitcoin is so deflated that it’s not a practical currency to buy goods on the open market. It’s become an asset, like gold or bearer bonds. Journalists don’t need that. If you want to help journalists in repressive regimes, you can donate to Reporters Without Borders.

[@TheRealMonkeyrogue]

I'm here for your voice. The sheer enthusiasm is contagious.

[@northstar6920]

To fail, you have to be able to succeed at something in the first place...

[@JunkBondTrader]

what do you think North Korea's goal is? They aren't trying to achieve what other countries are. They are this way on purpose. They are all about having their population under their thumb, and retaining complete power over their people as a regime. They are remarkably successful in that regard. They aren't trying to take over the world, they don't really care about the outside world as much as it would seem. Everything they do is meant to fool and deceive their population, and retain power in their regime. They don't want to nuke anyone, or invade countries, or have a happy, thriving population, or whatever you think their goals are. They want to be left alone.

[@gokrtkd816]

@Chill X eat glass

[@lt3lt3lt3]

Top most tier content muta

[@HailAzathoth]

Remember bois, all of Korea would currently be united under a democratic government if it weren't for china. Don't forget about that.

[@cat__person]

cool

[@citizenvulpes4562]

You were first.

[@-LFX-]

He was first!

[@RT-.]

You're first