company:sony pictures

  • Details Emerge on Global Bank Heists by Hackers - The New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/business/dealbook/details-emerge-on-global-bank-heists-by-hackers.html

    Computer security researchers briefed on the investigation into one of the attacks, on the Bangladesh Bank, raised several theories about the crime, including the possibility that groups from Pakistan and North Korea may have been spying on the bank. Other analysts investigating the attacks said there were striking similarities between the “multiple bespoke tools” used by the hackers in both the banking cases and the attack on Sony Pictures in 2014.

    The latest breach detailed by Swift in a letter to its users on Friday occurred at a commercial bank that appeared, according to a leading online security firm BAE Systems on Friday, to be located in Vietnam.
    […]
    Also on Friday, two forensics investigators at BAE Systems outlined evidence that suggested similarities between the Bangladesh heist and a 2014 attack against Sony Pictures that law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States have traced to North Korea. That year, Sony released the farcical movie “The Interview,” which poked fun at North Korea.

    The investigators pointed to specialized, identical tools — including identical encryption keys, file names and a highly unusual data deletion technique — that were used in the attack on Sony Pictures, the Bangladesh central bank and the Vietnamese bank.

    However, people briefed on the actual investigation at the Bangladesh bank, who would speak only on the condition that they not be named, said that while the same tools were present inside Bangladesh’s systems, suggesting any link between that heist and the North Korean hackers would be premature.

  • Operation Blockbuster | Novetta Threat Research & Interdiction Group
    https://operationblockbuster.com

    In Operation Blockbuster, a Novetta-led coalition of private industry partners joined together to identify, understand, expose, and aid industry in degrading the Lazarus Group, the malicious threat actors behind multiple cyber campaigns, including the November 2014 Sony Pictures attack. Our story demonstrates private industry’s new role in ensuring the balance of global cyber defense.
    ...
    The attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment
    (SPE) was unprecedented in its media coverage
    and overt use of malicious destructive capabilities
    against a commercial entity. The SPE attack broke
    new ground not only as a destructive malware
    attack on a U.S. commercial entity but also due
    to the fact that the U.S. government attributed
    the attack to North Korea and enacted small
    reciprocal measures.
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    While the debate over who
    was responsible – North Korea, hacktivists, or SPE
    employees – was the primary subject played out
    in the media, the attack presented much larger
    implications, such as how little resistance a modern
    commercial enterprise is able to provide in the
    face of a capable and determined adversary with
    destructive intent.

    Further, Novetta’s analysis of the observed tooling and TTPs

    suggests that the group has executed numerous successful
    attacks due in large part to their organization and determination, more so than due to any highly sophisticated malware
    such as those reportedly used by similar classes of threat actors reported in the last few years, e.g., HDD malware
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    and
    Satellite Turla.
    3
    Through careful analysis outlined in this report and other associated reverse engineering technical reports, Novetta has
    been able to link the malware used in the SPE attack to a widely varied malicious toolset. This toolset includes malware
    directly related to previously reported attacks, suggesting that these malicious tools have been actively developed and
    used over a span of at least 7 years, and that the attackers responsible for the SPE attack have a much larger collection
    of related malware outside of the set of reported SPE destructive malware. Due to this, we strongly believe that the SPE
    attack was not the work of insiders or hacktivists. Instead, given the malicious tools and previous cyber operations linked
    to these tools, it appears that the SPE attack was carried out by a single group, or potentially very closely linked groups
    sharing technical resources, infrastructure, and even tasking. We have dubbed this group the Lazarus Group.
    Although
    our analysis cannot support direct attribution of a nation-state or other specific group due to the difficulty of proper
    attribution in the cyber realm, the FBI’s official attribution claims
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    could be supported by our findings.
    While the SPE attack occurred over a year ago, we are releasing this report now to detail our technical findings, clarify
    details surrounding the SPE hack, and profile the Lazarus Group, who has continued to develop tools and target victims
    since then. Most importantly, Novetta continues to work with our public and private partner organizations in this
    Operation to ensure that Novetta’s signatures and other data will have a meaningful impact on the Lazarus Group’s
    abilities to function, as well as help potential victims understand in great detail not only the technical but also the
    operational methods. Novetta feels that this combination of sharing highly technical analysis with both the public and
    private industry is the best way to interdict these types of actors.

    https://operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Operation-Blockbuster-Report.pdf

    #sécurité #internet

  • WikiLeaks shows Sony concerned by IDF’s use of its cameras in Gaza bombings
    Sony executives were concerned about a news report that showed one of its cameras being used to guide Israeli rockets bombing Gaza, company correspondence shows.
    By JTA | Apr. 23, 2015 | Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.653217

    Sony Pictures Entertainment executives were concerned about a news report that showed one of its cameras being used to guide Israeli rockets bombing Gaza, company correspondance.

    Correspondence about the situation from last August was part of the release by WikiLeaks last week of more than 173,000 emails and more than 30,000 company documents. The story was first reported by the Electronic Intifada.

    The correspondence among Michael Lynton, the company’s CEO; Stevan Bernard, its head of corporate security; and David Diamond, executive assistant to the company chairman, included a link to an Iranian Press TV report in which the reporter held up a part of a bomb fired by Israel on Gaza during last summer’s conflict and said it contained a camera marked Sony.

    Sony has told Japanese media that it does not design, manufacture or sell any products intended for use in weapons, according to Electronic Intifada.

    The document dump also includes correspondence showing actress Natalie Portman hosting an event last year for J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group.

    #BDS

  • #WikiLeaks dévoile le lien entre #Sony et la #Maison_blanche
    http://fr.sputniknews.com/presse/20150417/1015707471.html

    « Le travail de Sony consiste à produire du #divertissement. Néanmoins, les archives indiquent qu’en coulisses Sony est une compagnie influente ayant des relations avec la Maison blanche (les archives comportent plus de cent courriers électroniques du gouvernement américain) et la possibilité d’influer sur les #lois et la #politiques, ainsi que des relations avec le #complexe_militaro-industriel américain », indique le communiqué de WikiLeaks.

    • WikiLeaks shows Sony concerned by IDF’s use of its cameras in Gaza bombings
      Sony executives were concerned about a news report that showed one of its cameras being used to guide Israeli rockets bombing Gaza, company correspondence shows.
      By JTA | Apr. 22, 2015 | 7:59 PM
      http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.653217

      Sony Pictures Entertainment executives were concerned about a news report that showed one of its cameras being used to guide Israeli rockets bombing Gaza, company correspondance.

      Correspondence about the situation from last August was part of the release by WikiLeaks last week of more than 173,000 emails and more than 30,000 company documents. The story was first reported by the Electronic Intifada.

      The correspondence among Michael Lynton, the company’s CEO; Stevan Bernard, its head of corporate security; and David Diamond, executive assistant to the company chairman, included a link to an Iranian Press TV report in which the reporter held up a part of a bomb fired by Israel on Gaza during last summer’s conflict and said it contained a camera marked Sony.

      Sony has told Japanese media that it does not design, manufacture or sell any products intended for use in weapons, according to Electronic Intifada.

      The document dump also includes correspondence showing actress Natalie Portman hosting an event last year for J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group.

      #Gaza

    • Sony CEO on Middle East: Let Them All Kill Each Other (Except Israel) / Sputnik International
      http://sputniknews.com/us/20150421/1021146018.html

      The massive collection includes emails CEO Michael Lynton wrote in response to an October 2014 Washington Post article about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in Syria. A relative forwarded Lynton the article with the comment “Brilliant.”

      “Let them all kill each other!” Lynton wrote in a response email. 

      “Face it the entire thing is a gigantic mess. And if it were not for Israel, we would let them all kill each other and wait for the dust to settle.”

      #Michael_Lynton #divertisseur

  • Mexico Reportedly Paid Millions to #Hollywood for Better Portrayal in Upcoming 007 Film | VICE News
    https://news.vice.com/article/mexico-reportedly-paid-millions-to-hollywood-for-better-portrayal-in-upco

    Executives at Sony Pictures Entertainment discussed getting as much as $20 million in incentives from Mexico’s government if they changed characters and storyline details related to Mexico in the latest James Bond film, leaked emails show.

    The changes, reported by tax news website TaxAnalysts.com, included replacing a scene set originally at a cage-match with a lavish Day of the Dead parade, and altering a scene in which the mayor of Mexico City is killed.

    Film executives also responded to requests described in emails to make sure that the villain in “Spectre” not be Mexican, and that the new “Bond Girl” be Mexican.

    Well into filming, the official ’007’ site revealed on March 9 that the franchise’s first ever Mexican Bond Girl will be actress Stephanie Sigman, known for her starring role in the film “Miss Bala.”

    The TaxAnalysts.com report was based on leaked emails thought to come from the massive cyber-attack suffered by Sony last December.

    #fabrication #cinéma #corruption

  • Quand L’église porte plainte contre Sony, pour piratage de son logo dans un film ! (salvation boulevard) | TorrentNews

    http://torrentnews.net/2011/07/19/quand-leglise-porte-plainte-contre-sony-pour-piratage-de-son-logo-dans-

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    #religion #copyright

    Tout allait bien jusqu’à la semaine dernière, date de sortie aux Etats-Unis de SALVATION BOULEVARD (le boulevard du salut), le dernier film de Pierce Brosnan (sortie en France en septembre 2011)

    Le mouvement vient en effet d’intenter en procès les réalisateurs et distributeurs du film : Sony Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, IFC Films et Comcast

    Le mouvement accuse les prévenus de violation de copyright, de contrefaçon de marque et concurrence déloyale en utilisant une version miroir du logo de l’église dans le film.