Alejandro Caceres, a Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur, reveals his identity as P4x and takes matters into his own hands after being targeted by North Korean spies.
P4x ’s real identity, revealed here for the first time, is Alejandro Caceres, a 38-year-old Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur with hacker tattoos on both arms, unruly dark brown hair, a very high tolerance for risk, and a very personal grudge. Like many other US hackers and security researchers, Caceres had been personally targeted by North Korean spies who aimed to steal his intrusion tools. He had detailed that targeting to the FBI but received no real government support .
while he carried out his attack, providing screen-capture videos and other evidence that he was, in fact, single-handedly disrupting the internet of an entire country in real time. But it was only just before going public that he decided to invent the P4x pseudonym for himself. The handle, pronounced “pax,” was a cheeky allusion to his intention of forcing a kind of peace with North Korea through the threat of his own punitive measures.
at the time as about equivalent in workload to a “small-to-medium” size penetration test of the kind Hyperion Gray would carry out for clients. North Korean watchers soon began to notice that the Hermit Kingdom’s entire web, from its government portal to its state-run airline booking site, had been knocked offline for days on end by an apparent cyberattack.
agreed to call him Angus, though that isn’t his real name. A few weeks after his North Korea attack, Caceres met Angus in the offices of Angus’ Pentagon-funded hacker startup. Angus began by warning Caceres that he was potentially in danger of reprisal from the North Korean state and that he should be wary of the possibility of a physical attack that might be made to look like a mugging, or of someone tampering with his prescription medications. “Before that, I was nervous,” Caceres says.
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