. Although the country is roughly the same size as the state of Mississippi, it has no more than a few dozen websites largely aimed at distributing state propaganda to the international audience.
Over the years, hackers who are usually associated with bad things on the internet, have donned the roles of activists as well. In this new avatar, they speak truth to the power, expose the facts andnear borders amid escalating tensions. P4x's reasons don't take the moral high ground but are simple: they're personal.
In January 2021, P4x received a file that a fellow hacker claimed to be an exploitation tool that could aid him in his projects. Just 24 hours later, P4x came across a blog post on Google that North Korean hackers were targeting U.S. security researchers. The file that was sent to him contained a backdoor exploit to take control of his computer.
P4x was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking details about the attack and the extent of its damage but wasn't offered any protection against similar attacks in the future. A year went by, and P4x did not hear of action taken against the North Korean hackers or even formal acknowledgment of the attack from the U.S. state, so he decided to take the matter into his own hands.
According to Wired's report, only a small fraction of North Korea can access the internet with most of them being able to. So, P4x's attacks haven't really troubled everyone in North Korea but only a few officials from the current regime, which is a result P4x is quite happy with. He wants to take this a step further by putting together a group of hacktivists that will further sharpen their attacks on North Korea and steal more information from North Korean websites, Wired reported.
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