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North Korea denies involvement in Sony Pictures hack

North Korea, for the first time, has denied involvement in the recent cyber attack that hit Sony Pictures.

The country is a suspect in the attack, partly because of Sony’s upcoming release of “The Interview,” a comedy in which two TV reporters travel to North Korea on a secret mission to kill leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korea has been blamed for cyber attacks before, on South Korea, and state media earlier this year threatened “a strong and merciless countermeasure” should the Sony movie be released. But on Wednesday a government official denied any link between North Korea and the attack on Sony.

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Sony Pictures hack gets uglier; North Korea won’t deny responsibility

More evidence has emerged that makes the Sony Pictures hack look similar to a suspected attack on South Korean companies over a year ago. And a spokesperson for the North Korean government, rather than denying his country’s involvement, is playing coy as the damage to Sony appears to be growing daily.

When contacted by the BBC, a spokesperson for North Korea’s mission to the United Nations said, “The hostile forces are relating everything to [North Korea]. I kindly advise you to just wait and see.”

Sony Pictures’ computers were reportedly the victim of wiper malware which erased all the data on infected PCs and the servers they were connected to. As Ars reported yesterday, this is similar to the attack on two South Korean broadcasters and a bank that was launched in 2013. As security reporter Brian Krebs reports, the FBI sent out a “Flash Alert” to law enforcement warning of a cyber attacker using “wiper” malware this week—malicious software that erases the entire contents of the infected machine’s hard drives as well as the contents of the master boot record of the computer.

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