Report: Chinese hackers behind WannaCry software

After the WannaCry e-mail offensive to ransom in panic and huge losses for hundreds of companies and institutions in more than 150 countries across the world, and after the investigation went on a path accusing the hackers of North Korea, it seems that the investigation will take new grants.

Experts from Kaspersky and Symantec have pointed out that the hacker group called Lazarus may have been behind the process. There was a link between WannaCry's cyber attack and a kind of malware previously used by the hackers group associated with North Korea. Has claimed responsibility for a piracy operation targeting Sony's film production division in 2014 in response to the latter's production of an offensive film of the leader of the North Korean regime.

However, the security company "Flashpoint" has opened a new path in the investigation of the programmers to extract the ransom WannaCry, where the company pointed out that, after analyzing the messages that appear to users after infecting their devices with this software concluded that the messages written in Chinese and English alone are correct at the linguistic level, Company experts noted that the rest of the messages written in different languages are in fact only a translation of the original text in Chinese and English, and it appears that translation programs have been used as "Google Translate".