It's the Russians! No, wait, it's the North Koreans! No, wait…
It's been interesting to watch the so-called experts take such authoritative positions regarding the recent global ransomware virus with virtually zero evidence to support their arguments.
Last month, the WannaCry virus infected roughly 300,000 systems in more than 150 nations, and demanded $300 in Bitcoins in exchange for the decryption of victim systems. If the victim did not pay the ransom after three days, the demand doubled to $600. If the ransom remained unpaid, then eventually the adversary would threaten to delete the victim's data.
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