Inside North Korea's Naenara browser

Minimalist · Jan 9, 2015

Up until a few weeks ago, the number of people outside of North Korea who gave much thought to the Internet infrastructure in that country was vanishingly small. But the speculation about the Sony hack has fixed that, and now a security researcher has taken a hard look at the national browser used in North Korea and found more than a little weirdness.
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http://threatpost.com/inside-north-koreas-naenara-browser

Veeshush · Jan 10, 2015

Oh wow. Yeah, that's another thing I always wondered about.

That means the microtime of installation is sent to the mothership every single time someone pulls down the anti-phishing and anti-malware lists (from 10.76.1.11) in the browser. This microtime is easily enough information to decloak people, which is presumably the same reason Google built it into the browser,” Hansen said.

Also, any time a browser crashes, the report is sent back to the main DPRK IP address, giving the country valuable insights into what’s causing crashes, and perhaps, new vulnerability data.

“Useful for debugging and also for finding exploits in Firefox, without necessarily giving that information back to Mozilla – a U.S. company,” Hansen said.
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That last part is a bit scary actually.

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