The U.S. government has named North Korea as the source of the devastating WannaCry cyberattack.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday, Thomas Bossert, Trump's homeland security assistant, wrote that North Korea is "directly responsible" for the attack that "was widespread and cost billions."
WannaCry was a ransomware program that spread on Windows-based computers of numerous individuals and institutions in multiple countries in May this year. After infecting a system, the malicious software would encrypt the users' files and asked for a payment of roughly $300 worth of Bitcoin. In many cases, even paying the ransom did not decrypt the files. Read more...
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