Railed virusophobia

President Vladimir Putin said that the source of the computer-Maintenance of the Wannacry, the epidemic of which struck computers in more than 150 countries of the world, is American specials. The head of state said this at a press conference following a visit to China, Interfax reports .

“As for the source of these threats, in my opinion, the leadership of Microsoft directly stated this. They said that the primary source of this virus is the special services of the United States, Russia has nothing to do with it. I am strange to hear something else under these conditions,” the agency quoted Putin as saying.

Putin said that Russian institutions were seriously not affected by cyber attacks, but, according to him, the very fact of an epidemic of the Monk virus "causes concern."

Meanwhile, Microsoft President Brad Smith did not directly accuse the American intelligence services of spreading the virus. Smith on the eve wrote on his blog on the corporation’s website that the Wannacry virus uses software vulnerabilities when attacking the data used the US National Security agency (NSA). Later after the information leakage, these vulnerabilities became well -known, on the basis of their developers Wannacry created a malicious program.

On Monday, the British The Times reported with reference to payment systems that the organizers of the cyber attacks earned on their victims who agreed to pay money for the decoding of files damaged by the virus, 42 thousand dollars.

On the same day, the second wave of cyber attack affected Asia. According to Hindustan Times, in China, computers of the Petrochina energy giant, police and road services suffered from infection. The authorities of South Korea reported nine cases of infection with the virus recorded in the country. According to the Associated Press, Nissan and Hitachi were injured in Japan from the attack.

The Wannacry computer virus epidemic began last Friday . As of Saturday, a malicious program infected about 45 thousand computers in 74 countries. In Russia, computer systems "Sberbank", "Megafon", "Russian railways" and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were injured from the virus. The Wannacry virus encrypts user files and changes their expansion. For deciphering data, attackers demand to pay a ransom from 200 to 600 dollars in bitcoins. In case of non -payment, files are deleted.