"Vesti" report that experts from the US company Symantec and the Russian "Kaspersky Lab" have suggested that to the global cyber attack using a virus-extortionist WannaCry could have involved hackers from North Korea. "Russia 24" recalls that the virus hacked over the whole planet more than 300,000 computers.

As noted, the same group of hackers committed the theft of the Central Bank of Bangladesh in 2016 and organized an attack on Sony's studio in 2014. Hackers belong to the cybergroup Lazarus.

Vesti reports that the Israeli company Check Point Software Technologies has discovered a new version of the WannaCry virus, used earlier to implement cyber attacks in 150 countries around the world. The company statement said: "Over the past few hours, we have witnessed an attack with the speed of one attack per second".

Recall previously reported that the virus WannaCry attacked computers around the world on May 12, 2017. Computers that do not have a March update for Windows. According to the director of Europol Rob Wainwright, cyberattack affected more than 200 thousand users in 150 countries.