The Trump administration has formally pointed the finger of blame at North Korea for the mass-scale cyberattack known as WannaCry, according to an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Thomas Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. The U.K.’s intelligence service had attributed the campaign — which sought ransom payments from businesses and other entities, including hospitals and government agencies in a variety of countries, into which it had successfully wormed, effectively locking computers and networks until ransom was paid — to the Pyongyang regime six months earlier. In his ... (full story)