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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Damn the Russians hooked this guy in at age 17, gave him malware to distribute and split the profit with him 50/50 and the scam last 18 months.
He spread the malware to over 165,000 PC's and made over $5.2 million |
USA innocent of course
An NSA Cyber Weapon Might Be Behind A Massive Global Ransomware Outbreak
It's been a matter of weeks since a shady hacker crew called Shadow Brokers dumped a load of tools believed to belong to the National Security Agency (NSA). It now appears one leaked NSA tool, an exploit of Microsoft Windows called EternalBlue, is being used as one method for rapidly spreading a
ransomware variant called WannaCry across the world.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasb.../#63c2ce5de599