C yber security researchers have found technical clues they said could link North Korea with the global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack that has infected more than 300,000 machines in 150 countries since Friday . Symantec and Kaspersky Lab said on Monday some code in an earlier version of the WannaCry software had also appeared in programs used by the Lazarus Group, which researchers from many companies have identified as a North Korea-run hacking operation. "This is the best clue we have seen to date as to the origins of WannaCry," Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner told Reuters. “At this time, all we have is a temporal link,” Eric Chien, an investigator at Symantec, told the New York Times . “We want to see more coding similarities to give us more confidence.’’ A merican officials said Monday that they had also seen the same similarities, the newspaper reported. Both firms said it was too early to tell whether North Korea was involved in...
You may have heard that a globe-spanning ransomware attack known as ransomware program WannaCry is targeting the Microsoft Windows OS. On Friday, 12 May 2017, a large cyber-attack was launched using it, infecting more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries, demanding ransom payments in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 28 languages. But it could have been a lot worse—and we have cybersecurity researchers to thank for making sure it wasn’t. Thousands of computers in China and Japan hit by WannaCry virus. Putin says Russia had 'nothing to do' with global ransomware outbreak. Microsoft attacks US government over developing 'EternalBlue' exploit that led to hack. New strains of virus reported but having little effect. Jeremy Hunt says there has been no second wave of attacks. Like previous ransomware, the attack spreads by phishing emails, but also uses the EternalBlue exploit and DoublePulsar backdoor developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to spread th...