The White House has blamed North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware attacks back in May. The attacks started on May 12, and affected more than 230,000 computers across 150 countries. The U.S. security advisor, Thomas P. Bossert, published the administration’s conclusions in an Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal. He said the consequences and repercussions of the attacks “were beyond economic” The attacks targeted a vulnerability in the SMB protocol and leveraged an exploit stolen from the NSA (ETERNALBLUE)”]

