‘Hospitals hacked by N Koreans’

THE cyber attack which crippled the NHS was the work of hackers in North Korea, it is claimed.

Experts believe the Lazarus group, which hit Sony Pictures in 2014 over satirical film The Interview, is to blame.

Adrian Nish, who leads a cyber threat intelligence team at BAE, said: “It seems to tie back to the same code base, the same authors. Code overlaps are significant.”

Lazarus, linked to Kim Jong-un’s cash-starved regime, is also blamed by Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre and America’s National Security Agency.

The WannaCry “ransomware” hit more than 60 NHS trusts – and global giants Fedex, Renault and Telefonica.

Operations were cancelled, X-rays, test results and patient records became unavailable and hospital phones did not work. No ransoms were paid. CARE Patient in bed on a hospital ward