https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/wiper/Recent content in Wiper on LocodigitalHugoen-USSat, 22 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/sony-pictures-hack-2014-north-korea-vs-hollywood/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/sony-pictures-hack-2014-north-korea-vs-hollywood/<p>November 24, 2014. Sony Pictures employees arrived at work and found a red skeleton on their screens with the caption: <em>Hacked by #GOP</em>. Network drives were inaccessible. Email, frozen. Internal files, corrupted or deleted. Within hours, one of the world's largest film studios was running on pen and paper.</p> <p>It wasn't ransomware asking for money. It was deliberate destruction — and behind it stood an entire country.</p> <h2>Who were the "Guardians of Peace"?</h2> <p>The group called itself <strong>Guardians of Peace</strong> (GOP). Over the following weeks, the FBI ran a technical investigation comparing the malware used in the attack against known samples from earlier campaigns. The conclusion, announced on December 19, 2014 — just 25 days after the incident — was unambiguous: the people responsible were agents of the North Korean government.</p>