Russia’s Putin blames U.S. cyberspies for global hacking wave

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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Monday of developing the sophisticated hacking tools used in a worldwide cyberattack, crippling computers including those used by Russian law enforcement agencies.

Speaking at a news conference following an economic conference in China, Putin told journalists that Russia “had nothing to do” with the WannaCry virus, which reportedly used infiltration techniques developed by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The U.S. hacking codes were previously released in a leak by an online hacking collective that identified itself as Shadow Brokers.

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