US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack (npr.org)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:40AM from the pointing-fingers dept.

The White House has publicly blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack in May that locked more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries. From a report: In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert writes that after careful investigation, Washington can say that Pyongyang is "directly responsible" for the WannaCry virus. Bossert called the attack in which victims received ransom demands to unlock their computers "cowardly, costly and careless." "The consequences and repercussions of WannaCry were beyond economic," he wrote. "The malicious software hit computers in the U.K.'s health-care sector particularly hard, compromising systems that perform critical work. These disruptions put lives at risk." More details here.

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North Korea and NSA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-12-19 02:59 · Score: 5, Informative

WannaCry is based on EternalBlue which traces back to the NSA so I thing we need to give them credit was well.
1. Re:North Korea and NSA by sjames · 2017-12-19 04:27 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  THIS!
  The BSA developed a cyber weapon it never should have had (it primarily targets civilians) and then managed to mis-place it like a kindergartner's mittens and then it fell into an enemy's hands and got used against us. Why is there not a pair of smoking boots where the NSA used to be standing?