Tuesday's world stories

EU and U.K. agree on draft Brexit deal
The United Kingdom and the European Union have agreed on a draft Brexit agreement at a "technical level," reports the BBC.
The state of play: Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting with members of her Cabinet one by one tonight to discuss details of the deal, and she has called a special full Cabinet meeting to discuss the agreement at 2 p.m. (8 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, according to a No.10 spokesman. This could force top members of May's government to either support the deal or step down. Even if it passes muster, May still faces the difficult task of getting her Conservative Party — and the rest of Parliament — on board for a vote.

WannaCry is still dominating ransomware
WannaCry, once the greatest cybersecurity calamity in history, now doesn't work. A website critical to its function is now controlled by civic-minded security researchers, and the fixed deadline to pay the ransom has long passed. Yet WannaCry still accounts for 28% of ransomware attacks — the most of any ransomware family.
The big picture: According to a new study by Kaspersky Lab, the defanged North Korea linked ransomware is still spreading uncontrollably. The spreading mechanism that passed WannaCry from victim to victim that was so virulent in the 2017 attack is still active, even if the ransomware itself isn't. "This is not an uncommon occurrence, as there are multiple currently defunct worms that are still automatically spreading in the wild and infecting unpatched/unprotected machines," wrote Fedor Sinitsyn, senior malware analyst, via email.
Jerome Corsi, formerly of InfoWars, expects to be indicted by Mueller investigation
Jerome Corsi, a political commentator who was recently subpoenaed to testify in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation — told ABC News on Monday that he’s expecting an indictment from the special counsel soon.
“I don’t know what they’re going to charge me with. … I think my only crime was that I support Donald Trump. That's my crime, and now I'm going to go to prison for the rest of my life for cooperating with them.”
Details: Corsi was a prominent figure behind the birther conspiracy, which falsely claimed President Obama was born outside the U.S. He has connections to former Trump adviser Roger Stone Jr.

Satellite images show North Korea expanding 16 ballistic missile sites
North Korea has been making improvements to 16 hidden ballistic missile bases even as it has made halting moves to dismantle a major site to appease the United States, according to satellite images reported by the New York Times.
The big picture: The Trump administration has touted great progress in its diplomatic effort to eliminate North Korea's missile program, but evidence available to American intelligence agencies suggests otherwise. Talks between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official were canceled last week due to "a scheduling issue," according to the State Department — but the BBC reported that the meeting was canceled because "the North Koreans didn't get on the plane as planned."


