North Korea rejected allegations of hacker attack

In the South Korean control center, cyberattacks launched by North Korea are monitored

The cyber attack "WannaCry" has infected computers all over the world last week - the back men are still unknown. North Korea is wrongly accused.

To draw a link between the "WannaCry" Attacks and the People's Republic of North Korea is "ridiculous," said the United Nations Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Kim In Ryong, in New York. The US and other hostile forces were behind the accusation.

"Whenever something strange happens, it is the stereotypical nature of the US and the enemy powers to launch a vigorous anti-North Korean campaign," the diplomat said.

Similar code?

In particular, South Korean experts had expressed the suspicion that North Korea is behind the Cyberattacke. Simon Choi of the Internet security firm Hauri said that the code used for "WannaCry" was similar to those used in hacker attacks on the production company Sony Pictures and in Bangladesh. These attacks had been attributed to the so-called Lazarus group, which is associated with North Korea.

The software companies Symantec and Kaspersky Lab also explained that in a previous version of the malicious software programming code had been used, which was also used by the Lazarus group.

150 countries affected

In the past week, some 300,000 computers in 150 countries had been blocked by the malicious software named "WannaCry".Many hospitals have been paralyzed in Great Britain. Deutsche Bahn, the Renault car group, the telephone giant Telefónica and the Russian Ministry of the Interior were also affected. Users were asked to transfer money using Bitcoin's electronic currency, otherwise the PC would be blocked.