Hacked from North Korea (DDoS attack) causing FX companies to go down one after another... & introducing recommended FX news ♪
A few weeks ago, perhaps? I saw a news story that North Korea, cash-strapped due to the North’s rocket man, was trying to steal money by hacking into Bitcoin and FX to fund its operations… and it seems this has actually been put into action (-_-メ)
The first FX company to suffer a hack (DDoS attack) appeared to be Money Partners, and this is the company I monitor FX news from.
※ Many FX companies allow you to view news from either MarketWin24 or Global Info 24, but Money Partners distributes FX news from both and you can view them at once.
Fisco (Fisco) is also a rare firm that distributes news
Not related to hacking, but Money Partners is the easiest to read for FX news, with thorough search options, so I recommend it.
Even if you don’t trade actively, if you have 10,000 yen in your account you can view the news ♪
I basically check Global Info, and around noon their “Yorozu no Tsubuyaki” by Wada is particularly my favorite. It introduces the overall trend in FX in easy-to-read prose. Also, I keep an eye on Daiman-san’s “Blueta and Bear-suke’s The Speculation.” Daiman-san’s FX forecasts are like “if it exceeds XX, it will rise to ◆◆,” which isn’t really a forecast but more of a technical pivot-type thing, so it’s not very practical. Still, “Blueta and Bear-suke” is fairly entertaining even if it doesn’t help with investing.
This is Money Partners’ news screen
As far as I know, the most feature-rich
Now, about the DDoS attack, at first one of Money Partners’ news items (Global Info, I think) stopped updating, and after that the site itself became inaccessible.
However, the downtime of FX brokers was just the beginning; a few days later, HLB Hirose and its subsidiary JFX, which held AUD/JPY and NZD/JPY positions, also went down, and neither new positions nor settlements could be made.
The three that affected me were these, but I also received emails saying that FX Trade Financial (FXTF) and Deutsche Bank Japan, which I have accounts with, were hit by DDoS attacks as well.
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So many FX companies are getting hit by DDoS attacks, huh...
Every time North Korea’s idiot leader launches missiles or conducts atomic tests, the yen strengthens and stocks fall, which is frustrating enough, but on top of that they carry out DDoS attacks and threaten, “Pay up or we’ll stop.” Truly a country that’s beyond help.
Not necessarily the United States needed; I sometimes wonder if some country somewhere wouldn’t mind taking down North Korea, which spreads harm globally and has nothing good to offer, by accident…
Money Partners, Hirose, and JFX did suffer real damage, and I’d be quite unhappy if Click Securities couldn’t connect either…
I have 1,000,000 yen in FX NEo at Click Securities, 2,000,000 yen in KuriKku 365, and 1,500,000 yen in CFDs (oil).
I also use Maneo’s (Syndicated lending) Click’s platform (Maneo can stay down for a while… but it’s acceptable).
For the world and for myself, let’s hope something happens to North Korea’s kim jong-un.
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