Snowden Slams Sloppy NSA As the World’s Computer Systems Are Held to Ransom
SputnikNews.com
13.05.2017
Security experts including National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden have hit out at the NSA, which failed to prevent its tools being used to carry out a major cyber-attack on infrastructure across the world.
Security experts including National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden have blamed the intelligence agency for failing to inform potential targets about their vulnerability to cyber-attack.
On Friday, computer systems across the world were attacked by hackers in an attack dubbed WannaCry,” which uses an NSA exploit codenamed EternalBlue that was one of several tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers last month.
The tool exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Server Message Block which allows attackers to crash systems with a denial of service attack. After scrambling computer files, the malware demands $300 in Bitcoin to restore documents.
According to Kaspersky Lab, the cyber-attack has hit as many as 74 countries, including Russia, Ukraine and India.
The infections have disabled at least 16 hospitals in the UK, Spain’s main telecommunication services provider Telefonica, some Italian universities as well as some FedEx computers.
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