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The WannaCry ransomware might have a link to North Korea

Security researchers have noticed a similarity between an earlier version of WannaCry and a hacking tool used by the Lazarus Group. The Lazarus Group has been blamed for a string of recent banking heists, including the 2014 Sony hack. The evidence is far from a smoking gun, and may prove inconclusive, security experts say. But its still possible a separate hacker may have stolen snippets of code from past malware associated with the shadowy group, security firm Kaspersky Lab says. Symantec is investigating how prevalent this shared code is.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3196897/the-wannacry-ransomware-might-have-a-link-to-north-korea.html

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