US says Facebook, Microsoft disabled North Korean cyber actions

By Reuters
December 19, 2017

'The US government was calling on companies to cooperate in cyber security defense'

Tom Bossert, homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump, holds a press briefing to publicly blame North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyber attack at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2017. REUTERS

WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp acted last week to disable a number of North Korean cyber actions, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said on Tuesday as the United States publicly blamed Pyongyang for a May cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies.

Bossert did not provide details on those actions but said the US government was calling on companies to cooperate in cyber security defense.

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