North Korea's Internet Goes Dark Days After Sony Cyber Attack

North Korea is reportedly experiencing disruptions in its internet service days after the FBI announced that the Asian country was behind a recent cyber-attack on Sony Pictures.

Several media outlets are suggesting that perhaps an attack has been carried out on North Korea's already spotty internet, causing the country's service to go completely dark after several days of poor connection.

Although an attack is suspected, no evidence has directly indicated that the isolated Asian country is suffering a cyber-hack of its own.

Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, told Bloomberg News that North Korea's poor internet reception is uncommon.

"The situation now is they are totally offline," Madory told the media outlet. "I don't know that someone is launching a cyber-attack against North Korea, but this isn't normal for them. Usually they are up solid. It is kind of out of the ordinary. This is not like anything I've seen before."

Madory added to the New York Times that the country's internet failure is "consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers," he said referring to a cyber-attack tactic that inundates a server with information until it overloads and collapses.

Just last week, the FBI confirmed that North Korea played a part in the recent, massive Sony Pictures cyber-hack that leaked thousands of personal emails and information to the public, as well as threatened a 9/11-style terrorist attack on any theaters in the U.S. showing the film "The Interview," a comedy that features the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.