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Sony Pictures was hit by a high profile cyber attack recently, allowing hackers to steal and leak sensitive data, including financial documents, emails, passwords, unreleased movies, social security numbers and more. However, the company is ready to fight back and prevent this information from spreading further.
According to Recode, locations sharing the stolen data have become targets for new attacks set by Sony. The company is apparently using Amazon Web Service data centers to flood torrent files that contain stolen data with bad seeders, which will slow down download speeds and limit access to files.
Unfortunately for Sony, the leakers have already adapted to the flood of bad seeders. A few of the torrents using Amazon Web Service trackers have comments comments letting people know that the files are now traps from Sony and a new information dump was released on Wednesday, dodging the attacks by using a new file name.
So far, the FBI has remained unable to determine who was behind the attack on Sony Pictures, despite links to North Korea.
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KitGuru Says: Sony is going to struggle to control the spread of stolen information this late in the game. To make things worse, the FBI can't even track down who is responsible. Do you guys think the Sony Pictures hackers will get caught? Do you think Sony will be able to regain control over its stolen data?
Source: Re/code
flooding is illegal.. LOL
This type of Torrent Poisoning is a very grey area in legality. Technically there is no law protecting these tactics being used by Anti-Piracy groups so there for they could be liable depending on your country’s own laws for uploading damaged/malicious files to your computer. Yet on the other side of the coin, these tactics have been in use for nearly a decade and no company, to my knowledge, as been brought up on charges for it.
There was the Peer To Peer Privacy Prevention Act in the US in 2002 but that was pretty much forgotten about and was never reintroduced. It’s goal was to award immunity to company’s who deployed these measures in the goal of protecting copyright. There was some cases in Finland also that resulted in musicians accusing companies that deploy those tactics using their material as a virus. It went nowhere though due to Finnish Police declining to investigate the claims.
and Sony wonder why they keep getting hacked…….they would be better off just leaving it alone and using all their anger to create a better security system, the files are out there now and there is no way to stop the spread. The more the hackers see that this is pissing Sony off the more they will do it.
scrub
elaborate please.