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The WannaCry ransomware attack had started around 12 May 2017; using an exploit in Microsoft Windows' Server Message Block, it quickly spread from its initial point of injection believed to be in North Korea to over 230,000 computers in 150 countries within the day.
The United States Department of Justice has charged Park and other members of the Lazarus group for the WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017, [16] which involved the spreading of ransomware that encrypted files on victims' computers after spreading itself to other vulnerable devices on the local network that the compromised computer could access.
On 18 December 2017, the United States Government formally announced that it publicly considers North Korea to be the main culprit behind the WannaCry attack. [92] President Donald Trump's Homeland Security Advisor, Tom Bossert, wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about this charge, saying "We do not make this allegation lightly. It is ...
Marcus Hutchins' efforts to stop the spread of WannaCry malware just helped him avoid prison time. Judge JP Stadtmueller has sentenced Hutchins to a year of supervised release after he pleaded ...
North Korea is probably behind last month's WannaCry cyber attack, according to the United States National Security Agency.
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In August 2017, British security researcher Marcus Hutchins (aka 'MalwareTech'), previously notable for his involvement stopping the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, [5] was arrested by the FBI whilst visiting the United States. [6] He was alleged to have created the software in 2014, and to have sold it in 2015 via the AlphaBay forums.
May: WannaCry ransomware attack started on Friday, May 12, 2017, [107] and has been described as unprecedented in scale, infecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries. [108] A version of the unreleased Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is held for ransom, with the attackers threatening its release to the ...