AFP
LONDON
Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer Brad Smith has said the US National Security Agency developed the original code used in the attack, which was later leaked in a document dump.
Smith said he hoped the attacks would serve as “a wake-up call”.
He warned governments against stockpiling code that could be used in this way left it fall into the wrong hands and said instead they should point out the vulnerabilities to manufacturers.
“An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the US military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen,” Smith wrote.
There had been concern that Monday could see an upsurge in attacks at the start of the working week but fears eased as the number of incidents reported levelled off.
RUSSIA POINTS FINGER AT US
BEIJING: Russia had nothing to do with a massive global cyberattack, President Vladimir Putin said today, criticising the US intelligence community for creating the original software.
“As for the source of these threats, Microsoft’s leadership stated this directly, they said the source of the virus was the special services of the United States,” Putin said.
He was referring to a weekend blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith stating that the US National Security Agency had developed the code being used in the attack. (PTI)
