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The Wannacry virus, which struck millions of users in more than 150 countries of the world, was created in North Korea. This was stated by the US Presidential Assistant Tom Boster, reports The Wall Street Journal.

“After a thorough investigation, the United States officially impose responsibility for the large -scale attack of the Wannacry virus on North Korea,” the bossert emphasized. “This is not a frivolous statement. It is based on evidence. We are not alone in such conclusions. Other governments and private companies agree with us. The UK, Microsoft, has tied up the connection of the DPRK. attacks with the structures of the North Korean government. "

The Wannacry attack brought not only economic damage, the presidential adviser noted. She also showed the vulnerability of critical infrastructure. Bossort indicated that the spread of Internet technologies in the world makes it more vulnerable to such attacks, which is what the DPRK uses.

US President Donald Trump will take all the necessary measures in order to convince other countries to repel the North Korean threat in the field of cybersecurity, and also intends to seek new sanctions against Pyongyan of the UN Security Council, Bossort said.

Bosster said that the United States is actively struggle to protect the Internet from such threats and intend to hold their organizers accountable. “Hackers should be in prison, totalitarian governments - to be punished for their actions,” Trump adviser emphasized. In addition to the DPRK, Bossort also called Russia and Iran as sources of cyberosis for the United States. "The Trump administration ordered to remove the software of the" Kaspersky laboratory " of all government systems. Cooperation with the company that can transfer data to Russia is an unacceptable risk," he said.

The Wannacry computer virus epidemic began on May 12 . During the day, 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. WannaCry virus encrypted user files. For decoding these, attackers demanded to pay a ransom from 200 to 600 dollars in bitcoins.

On May 15, the British The Times, citing payment systems, said 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. The total damage from Wannacry was estimated at a billion dollars.

Already at the end of May, data appeared that the North Korean hacker group Lazarus was involved in the creation of the Wannacry virus. It was reported that it was supervised by the 180th department of the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army. In recent years, Pyongyang was accused in a number of cyber attacks in the United States, South Korea and a dozen of more than other countries. The objects became primarily the networks of financial institutions. In Pyongyang, however, these statements were called "ridiculous."