Computer security experts and researchers continue to study WannaCry ransomware virus, the malware responsible for the more widespread known computer attack (200 million computers in more than 150 countries). Last week we talked about clues suggesting ties between WannaCry’s creators and a group of North Korean hackers, known as Lazarus Group, responsible for other infamous cyber attacks, such as data thefts at Sony Pictures in 2014 and a robbery at a Bangladeshi bank in 2016.
Symantec, famed for its Norton Antivirus software, said there is evidence that leads to Lazarus group as responsible for WannaCry.
More specifically: some bits of code previously used by the Lazarus group during the attack on Sony Pictures and other similar cases, and the resemblances of techniques and infrastructures allow Symantec to say that the possibility that WannaCry is a fruit of the Lazarus group is «highly likely».