US charges North Korean hacker in WannaCry, Sony cyber attacks

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Names and shames alleged perpetrator.

US charges North Korean hacker in WannaCry, Sony cyber attacks
The US government on Thursday charged and sanctioned a North Korean man in the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyber attack and the 2014 cyber assault on Sony, US officials said. The charges, part of a strategy by the US government to deter future cyber attacks by naming and shaming the alleged ...

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