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International desk: Russia had nothing to do with a massive\u00a0global cyberattack, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, criticising the US\u00a0intelligence community for creating the original software.Hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries have been\u00a0hit by the ransomware attack, which has been described as the largest-ever of\u00a0its kind.<\/p>\n
It began Friday and struck banks, hospitals and government agencies among\u00a0a variety of other targets, exploiting known vulnerabilities in older\u00a0Microsoft computer operating systems.”As for the source of these threats, Microsoft's leadership stated this\u00a0directly, they said the source of the virus was the special services of the\u00a0United States,” Putin said.<\/p>\n
He was referring to a weekend blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith\u00a0stating that the US National Security Agency had developed the code being\u00a0used in the attack.It was leaked as part of a document dump, according to researchers.<\/p>\n
“A genie let out of a bottle of this kind, especially created by secret\u00a0services, can then cause damage to its authors and creators,” Putin said on\u00a0the sidelines of an international summit in Beijing.<\/p>\n
“This completely doesn't concern Russia.”
\nThe US has accused Russia in the past of mounting several cyberattacks.In March the Justice Department indicted two officials of Russia's Federal\u00a0Security Service and two criminal hackers whom they allegedly hired to steal\u00a0data from some 500 million Yahoo user accounts.<\/p>\n
While there was “no significant damage” to Russian institutions such as\u00a0banks and hospitals, Putin said the incident was “worrisome” and warranted\u00a0immediate talks “on a serious political level”.<\/p>\n
“There is nothing good in this and calls for concern,” he said.<\/p>\n
“A protection system from these manifestations needs to be worked out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International desk: Russia had nothing to do with a massive\u00a0global cyberattack, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, criticising the US\u00a0intelligence community for creating the original software.Hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries have been\u00a0hit by the ransomware attack, which has been described as the largest-ever of\u00a0its kind. It began Friday and struck banks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n