Menurut kantor berita Korut, KCNA, seorang juru bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri Pyongyang mengatakan tuduhan AS itu “konyol”.
“Seperti yang sudah kami sampaikan dengan jelas di beberapa kesempatan, kami tidak ada hubungannya dengan serangan siber,” kata dia, seperti diberitakan AFP.
Mereka berpendapat Washington memiliki motif “tersembunyi”.
“Langkah ini merupakan provokasi politik oleh AS untuk membujuk masyarakat internasional agar terlibat kontroversi dengan Korea Utara dengan merusak citra negara terhormat dan membuat mereka terlihat jahat.”
WannaCry merusak sekitar 300.000 komputer di 150 negara pada Mei, meng-enkripsi data pengguna dan meminta tebusan ratusan dolar dari pemiliknya untuk bisa mengembalikan data mereka.
Gedung Putih pekan ini menuduh Pyongyang yang melakukannya, mengikuti jejak sejumlah negara yang terlebih dulu menuduhnya.
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N. Korea denies role in WannaCry ransomware attack
NKorea | politics | cybercrime | hacking
Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Thursday 12/21/2017 - 14:50 UTC+7 | 358 words
North Korea on Thursday denied US accusations it was behind the WannaCry global
ransomware cyberattack, saying Washington was demonising it.
WannaCry infected some 300,000 computers in 150 nations in May, encrypting user files and
demanding hundreds of dollars from their owners for the keys to get them back.
The White House this week blamed Pyongyang for it, adding its voice to several other countries
that had already done so.
A spokesman for Pyongyang's foreign ministry said the US allegations were "absurd", adding:
"As we have clearly stated on several occasions, we have nothing to do with cyber-attacks."
Washington had "ulterior" motives, the spokesman added according to the North's KCNA news
agency.
"This move is a grave political provocation by the US aimed at inducing the international society
into a confrontation against the DPRK by tarnishing the image of the dignified country and
demonising it," he said.
North Korea is subject to multiple United Nations sanctions over its banned nuclear and ballistic
missile programmes, and tested its third ICBM last month.
Leader Kim Jong-Un declared his country had achieved full nuclear statehood, in a challenge to
US President Donald Trump who responded with promises of "major sanctions".
According to experts North Korea's cyberwarfare targets have expanded from the political -- it
was accused of hacking into Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014 to take revenge for "The
Interview", a satirical film that mocked Kim -- to the financial, as it seeks new sources of funding.
A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange shut down on Tuesday after losing 17 percent of its
assets in a hacking -- its second cyberattack this year, with the North accused of involvement in
the first.
Investigators are probing the possibility that Pyongyang was also behind Tuesday's incident, the
Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News reported.
The North is blamed for a massive $81 million cyber-heist from the Bangladesh Central Bank
(BCB) in 2016, as well as the theft of $60 million from Taiwan's Far Eastern International Bank
in October.
Pyongyang has angrily denied the accusations -- which it described as a "slander" against the
authorities -- but analysts say the digital footprints left behind suggest otherwise.
Penerjemah: Natisha Andarningtyas
Editor: Fitri Supratiwi
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