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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Homeland Security officials told Fox News on Monday that a “limited   
   number” of U.S. companies were hit by the WannaCry malicious software.   
      
   Hmmm, no hospitals in panic shut down, no trains crashing etc, the USofA   
   must be ahead of the UK in cyber Security, Eh?   
      
      
      
   North Korea possibly behind global cyberattack, researchers say   
      
   Cyber security researchers said Monday they may be able to link North   
   Korea to the unprecedented global cyberattack that took more than   
   300,000 computers hostage in 150 countries last week.   
      
   Symantec and Kaspersky Lab said that some of the code used in the version of   
   the WannaCry software had also been used in programs run by the North   
   Korea-linked Lazarus Group.   
      
   "This is the best clue we have seen to date as to the origins of WannaCry,"   
   Kurt Baumgartner, a researcher at Kaspersky Lab, told Reuters.   
      
   The researchers said it was too early to confirm that Pyongyang was behind the   
   cyberattacks. The researchers said they would have to study the code more.   
      
   The idea that North Korea could be behind the attack is not a reach. Both U.S.   
   and European officials told the news agency that North Korea should not be   
   ruled out as a suspect.   
      
   Hackers for the Lazarus Group were blamed for the theft of $81 million from   
   the Bangladesh central bank. The 2014 Sony hack was also pinned on the hacker   
   collective.   
      
      
   Friday’s attack is believed to be the biggest online extortion attack ever   
   recorded, spreading chaos by locking computers that run Britain’s hospital   
   network, Germany’s national railway and scores of other companies, factories   
   and government    
   agencies worldwide.   
      
   Homeland Security officials told Fox News on Monday that a “limited   
   number” of U.S. companies were hit by the WannaCry malicious software. CERT   
   (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) worked with the affected companies to get   
   a patch to parties affected    
   by the ransomware infection.   
      
   The officials would not name the companies involved, but stressed that the   
   money paid out worldwide so far since the attacks surfaced on Friday is a   
   relatively small number. Reports suggest the total ransom paid out is less   
   than $50,000.   
      
   Steven Wilson, Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center, told Sky News   
   on Sunday that it was now important that IT departments checked their systems   
   on Monday morning to ensure they had not been compromised.   
      
   He added: “It’s not a massively sophisticated attack. What is new is the   
   use of a worm to propagate through systems.   
      
   “It is beyond anything we have seen before.”   
      
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