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Reports suggesting North Korea may be source of ransomware attack: "Kaspersky and Symantec both said on Monday that technical details within an early version of
by pdm55 9y ago
Reports suggesting North Korea may be source of ransomware attack: "Kaspersky and Symantec both said on Monday that technical details within an early version of the WannaCry code are similar to code used in a 2015 backdoor created by the government-linked North Korean hackers, who were implicated in the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures and an $81m heist on a Bangladeshi bank in 2016."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/15/wannacry-ransomware-north-korea-lazarus-group https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/15/wannacry-...
- breakingcups 9y agoNorth Korea and Russia are always fingered as the source of any hacking/malware activity that hits the news, regardless of actual proof. The entire Sony hack attribution to North Korea was already shady, at best. Saying a nation-state actor hacked you makes it look a lot less worse than "some disgruntled ex-employee" or a 20-something year old student. I'm not saying this attribution is incorrect, but it's very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff with these kind of news articles, even from sources I'd normally consider reputable.