The administration of Donald trump publicly accused North Korea in a cyber-attack virus WannaCrythat struck hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.
«This attack cost the people and businesses billions, and North Korea bears direct responsibility,» said the Wall Street Journal Tom Bossert, President’s adviser on national security.
«Malicious behavior of Pyongyang becomes more glaring. WannaCry was just reckless,» said Bossert.
It is expected that the White house will make a more official statement later, reports Reuters.
According to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the US government is «almost sure» that the cyber-attack is WannaCry hacker group Lazarus Group, which works on the government of North Korea.
Representatives of the government of North Korea has not yet given his comments, but Pyongyang repeatedly denied its involvement in a large-scale cyber-attack.
In may of this year, the virus WannaCry struck more than 300 thousand computers in 150 countries. A similar attack occurred in June. Then the virus NotPetyasimilar to WannaCry attacked Ukraine and several other countries.
Some researchers believe that WannaCry hackers could launch even by accidentwhen I developed the code.
