Cyberattack eases, hacking group threatens to sell code

FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

WASHINGTON: Governments turned their attention to a possible new wave of cyberthreats on May 16 after the group that leaked US hacking tools used to launch the global WannaCry "ransomware" attack warned it would release more malicious code. 

The fast-spreading cyber extortion campaign, which has infected more than 300,000 computers worldwide since May 12, eased for second day on May 16, but the identity and motive of its creators remain unknown.