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From Kill Switch To Bitcoin, 'WannaCry' Showing Signs Of Amateur Flaws There's very little law enforcement can do to catch purveyors of ransomware — unless they slip up. The criminals behind the WannaCry attack may have done just that. Read more on NPR

From Kill Switch To Bitcoin, 'WannaCry' Showing Signs Of Amateur Flaws There's very little law enforcement can do to catch purveyors of ransomware — unless they slip up. The criminals behind the WannaCry attack may have done just that. Read more on NPR

North Korea May Be Linked To WannaCry Ransomware, Researchers Say Google security researcher Neel Mehta pointed out similarities between WannaCry and malware used by Lazarus, the group that's been blamed for the Sony Pictures hack of 2014. Read more on NPR

By MARK SCOTT from NYT Technology via New York Times

Cyberattack Culprits Demand Ransom Be Paid In Bitcoins Hackers have been targeting users and demanding bitcoins as ransom. Since not all their victims have used bitcoin before, they've been sending their victims bitcoin tutorials. Read more on NPR

Cyber Analysts Say WannaCry Ransomware Wasn't Very Sophisticated There's very little law enforcement can do to catch purveyors of ransomware — unless they screw up, or anger all the wrong people. The criminals behind the WannaCry attack may have done both. Read more on NPR

Microsoft's President Reflects On Cyberattack, Helping Pirates And The NSA Microsoft's president discusses the company efforts to contain the global WannaCry virus, which includes helping people who pirated his software, and he calls for a "Digital Geneva Convention." Read more on NPR