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They, however, warned that the possibility of another such attack should not be ruled out in the near future.
The NCA has provided guidance on how to avoid falling victim to the ransomware and has sought collaboration with international partners.
Cyber security experts, including Indian-origin Neel Mehta, claimed that the patterns of the ongoing ransomware attack matched with the “Lazarus Group” that works on behalf of North Korea and used the same coding and tools in the past as were used in “WannaCrypt” that affected Microsoft operating software.
According to media reports, South Korean authorities also suspected North Korea to be behind the attack.
