Snowden allowed NSA involvement in the global hacker attack
Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden suggested that during the global hacker attack May 12, a computer virus, originally developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), could be used. He wrote about this on his Twitter.
"The decision of the NSA to create tools to attack US software now threatens the lives of patients in hospitals," Snowden said. "Despite the warnings, the NSA has developed such tools. Today we see what it's worth. "
Earlier on Friday, a massive hacker attack began in Spain and Portugal, after which the extortion virus WanaCrypt0r 2.0 spread, causing damage in 74 countries. Its victims were hospitals, electricity grids, mobile operators, banks, the main German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. A total of 45 thousand attacks were registered. It was also reported about the attempts of the virus to penetrate the resources of Russian ministries and departments.
The victim of extortion was the Russian mobile operator Megafon. The representative of the company Petr Lidov-Petrovsky in a conversation with "Leno.ru" explained that the computers in the company were massively infected, because they are interconnected internally. As a result, the technical support stopped working, because the operators could not use computers and receive calls, and in the Megafon salons there were problems with customer service.
According to experts, the world has witnessed the largest virus attack in history.
Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden suggested that during the global hacker attack May 12, a computer virus, originally developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), could be used. He wrote about this on his Twitter.
"The decision of the NSA to create tools to attack US software now threatens the lives of patients in hospitals," Snowden said. "Despite the warnings, the NSA has developed such tools. Today we see what it's worth. "
Earlier on Friday, a massive hacker attack began in Spain and Portugal, after which the extortion virus WanaCrypt0r 2.0 spread, causing damage in 74 countries. Its victims were hospitals, electricity grids, mobile operators, banks, the main German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. A total of 45 thousand attacks were registered. It was also reported about the attempts of the virus to penetrate the resources of Russian ministries and departments.
The victim of extortion was the Russian mobile operator Megafon. The representative of the company Petr Lidov-Petrovsky in a conversation with "Leno.ru" explained that the computers in the company were massively infected, because they are interconnected internally. As a result, the technical support stopped working, because the operators could not use computers and receive calls, and in the Megafon salons there were problems with customer service.
According to experts, the world has witnessed the largest virus attack in history.
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