Chinese State Media Says US Should Take Some Blame For Cyberattack (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: Chinese state media on Wednesday criticized the United States for hindering efforts to stop global cyber threats in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack that has infected more than 300,000 computers worldwide in recent days. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) should shoulder some blame for the attack, which targets vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems and has infected some 30,000 Chinese organisations as of Saturday, the China Daily said. "Concerted efforts to tackle cyber crimes have been hindered by the actions of the United States," it said, adding that Washington had "no credible evidence" to support bans on Chinese tech firms in the United States following the attack. The malware attack, which began on Friday and has been linked by some researchers to previous hits by a North Korean-run hacking operation, leveraged a tool built by the NSA that leaked online in April, Microsoft says.

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Re:Don't blame the U.S.A.

[Dutch Gun]

Agreed, blame the US TLAs for this. It falls *directly* on them in this particular case. Microsoft made a mistake, but they made a good-faith efforts to fix said mistake. And if you're going to castigate organizations for making security mistakes, there's no widely used OSes that haven't had their share of doozies in the last few years alone.

That being said, the last country I want to hear casting blame about regarding cyberattacks is China.