President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sit down for a dinner during the second U.S. North Korea Summit.
The U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sit down for a dinner during the second U.S.-North Korea Summit at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam February 27, 2019.
Nicole Perlroth told CNN on Monday that while President Donald Trump was in Hanoi giving Kim Jong Un a pass for murdering American college student Otto Warmbier, North Korean hackers attacked more than 100 sites in the United States and among our allies, including water utilities, oil and gas companies and critical infrastructure companies in the U.S.
Perlroth said the attacks had been begun when Trump first derided Kim Jong Un as Rocket Man and threatened to wipe North Korea off the map and had continued through both summits and all through last fall when Trump was saying that he and Kim Jong Un were sending fawning love notes to one another and falling in love. These attacks were continuing on some pretty significant critical infrastructure targets here in the United States, she said.
If you look at the map of where the attacks were hitting, the vast majority of them were hitting banks in New York or a little bit more concerningly, oil and gas companies near Houston
. According to Perlroth when you think about why a nation state would be attacking companies and the energy sector, you start to think more about some of these physical attacks that could cause damage, Perlroth said, I think actually the target that sort of terrified me the most personally as a cybersecurity reporter was a water utility in the United States.
We don’t know which one it was, but why would the North Koreans be trying to get into a water utility systemssystems! This was what happening on the back end according to Perlroth, as President Donald Trump saying wonderful things about Kim Jong-Un and saying he’s taking him at his word in the Otto Warmbier case sheshsheshesh said.
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