WannaCry Attack: Microsoft Questions Role of Intelligence Community

Who’s to blame for the astonishingly successful ransomware attack sweeping the planet?

Microsoft, the information technology giant whose popular Windows operating systems harbored the flaw malicious hackers exploited to paralyze at least 200,000 computers and systems in 150 countries, is pointing the finger at Washington.

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