The NSA reportedly believes North Korea was responsible for WannaCry ransomware attacks
North Korea increasingly appears to have been behind the ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers last month and shut down hospitals, businesses, and other systems in the process.
The Washington Post is now reporting that the US National Security Agency believes with “moderate confidence” that the ransomware, called WannaCry, came from hackers sponsored by North Korea’s spy agency. The report isn’t public, but the Post says the assessment has been distributed within the agency.
North Korea was first linked to WannaCry last month. Several cybersecurity researchers, including some at Symantec and Kaspersky Lab, saw code similarities between WannaCry and other malware...