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. welcome back. big companies and government agencies across the u.s., europe and russia struggling to recover from another huge malware attack. ukranian firms and government agencies, they've been hit particularly hard. this virus dubbed petya is similar to wannacry. it's only been a month since the wannacry hit computers in 150 countries. ransom ware infects and locks a computer and then it demands $300 in bit coin to open it up. petya also spread through a similar flaw in microsoft windows. the virus targets anyone who hasn't updated their system. cyber security is

Governments around the world. you're now talking about some 150 governments that want answers to who conducted this global cyber attack. the responsibility for figuring that out falls largely on researchers and security firms. and what they do is they take the code from this malware attack and try to match it to code used by known hackers. that seems to have led a top researcher at google to find similarity between the code used in this attack and code used by a well-known group from north korea, the lazarus group. now, two other major security firms are backing up these findings, also agreein...

Lazarus group. a hacking operation linked to north korea. senior correspondent greg pal cot joins us live from london. what is the very latest about the possible north korea connection? >> exactly, shannon. circumstantial evidence at least is pointing to the possibility of north korean hackers behind this global malware attack. remember, the damage that's been done worldwide this ransomware that holds computers hostage until their users pay bitcoin. the ransom paid was low but it has hit companies and governments to the tunes of billions of dollars. now cybersecurity firms around the world tod...

A really a significant increase on the more recently estimates that we had as recently as, like, yesterday. they were talking about 75,000 victims in less than a hundred countries. the scope of this is really only beginning to come clear. i think. as a result we only beginning to appreciate the role that this accidental hero has played in blocking the malware attack from causing further infections. you the malware tech is what this person is known as online and other than keeping a low profile and we know they work for an l.a.-based intelligence company. this person was studying the malware as...