"world's attitude" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a collective attitude of people or nations around the world regarding a particular issue. For example, "The world's attitude towards climate change is beginning to shift towards embracing alternative energy sources."
It's worth noting that the tech world's attitude towards hacking the system, any system, generally ranges from "grudging respect" to "outright approval".
And the rest of the world's attitude to it will have to follow suit.
Your brief mention of it is typical of the world's attitude.
Is she one of the women who changed the world's attitude toward women?
So said Gordon Gekko, the anti-hero in Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street, as he perfectly described the financial world's attitude to acquiring more and more money.
After all, I said, the world's attitude toward terrorism had changed after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the American Army was now parked on the other side of Jordan in Iraq.
The newest generation of the Guerrilla Girls, since 1985 the anonymous monitors of the art world's attitudes toward women, is more expansive in its outlook, too.
Though she has lobbied for change in the Muslim world's attitudes toward female athletes, she has avoided direct confrontation since her early support for a protest group, then called "Atlanta Plus," that was pushing hard for nations to include female athletes in their teams at the 1996 Games.
Dr. Raul Artal, an obstetrician-gynecologist who spent some of his early career in Southern California, not far from the tennis courts where Serena and Venus Williams were introduced to tennis, when they were preschool age, has been instrumental in reshaping the medical world's attitudes about pregnancy and exercise.
"We had just spent five years in the company when the attitude towards us was like a Third World company's attitude toward its workers," says union rep Reilly.
THE public's attitude to the world's leading drug companies has always been somewhat ambivalent.
