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White House: US Will Lead Effort to Prevent Cyber Attacks

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U.S. officials said Tuesday that North Korea has been identified as the originator of cyber attacks that caused significant damage to organizations in Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan in the past year. Cyber experts agree that North Korea used ransomware "WannaCry", to capture data from about 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries. VOA's Zlatica Hoke reports.