Chinese intelligence agents may have supplied National Security Association ( NSA ) hacking tools to organized crime organisation spy Brokers , which launched attacks including WannaCry , according to security company Symantec . It said a Chinese state contractor it dubbed the Buckeye NSA was using the tools before Shadow Brokers claimed to have stolen the tools from the NSA . Symantec said Buckeye may have captured the tools when the NSA was attacking its clients and adapted them for its own uses . Attacks were launched on education and research organisations , and Buckeye may have been indirectly behind the NSA attack on the NHS .
Chinese intelligence agents may have supplied National Security Association (NSA) hacking tools to cyber crime organisation Shadow Brokers, which launched attacks including WannaCry, according to security company Symantec. It said a Chinese state contractor it dubbed the Buckeye group was using the tools before Shadow Brokers claimed to have stolen the tools from the NSA. Symantec said Buckeye may have captured the tools when the NSA was attacking its computers and adapted them for its own uses. Attacks were launched on education and research organisations, and Buckeye may have been indirectly behind the WannaCry attack on the NHS.