Cyber security researchers claim to have found technical clues they say could link North Korea with the global ‘ransom-ware’ cyber attack.
Cyber security researchers claim to have found technical clues they say could link North Korea with the global ‘ransom-ware’ cyber attack.
The cyber attack by the virus dubbed WannaCry has infected more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries since Friday.
Symantec and Kaspersky Lab have said some code in an earlier version of the ‘WannaCry’ virus had also appeared in programs used by the Lazarus Group, which researchers from many companies have identified as a North Korea-run hacking operation.
Both firms said it was too early to tell whether North Korea was involved in the attacks, which slowed to a crawl on Monday but have already become one of the fastest-spreading extortion campaigns on record.
