Collaborate Disseminate
Attackers behind today’s WannaCry ransomware outbreak in Europe are spreading the malware using the EternalBlue exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers. Continue reading Leaked NSA Exploit Spreading Ransomware Worldwide
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week in news, including the long term implications of the NSA’s DoublePulsar exploit, and the HipChat breach. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, April 21, 2017
Microsoft dismisses DoublePulsar infection estimates, but otherwise remains silent. Continue reading NSA backdoor detected on >55,000 Windows boxes can now be remotely removed
More than 200,000 machines have been infected by an NSA backdoor leaked nearly two weeks ago by the Shadow Brokers hacking group, according to the latest scans and estimates. Experts expect to see the exploits, implants and other NSA-built hacking tools in use for as long as a decade into the future. U.S. computers are by far the most frequently hit targets of DOUBLEPULSAR, a backdoor implant allowing attackers to stealthily collect information and run malicious code on a target’s machine, according to the Swiss security firm Binary Edge, which counted 183,107 infected machines as of early Monday morning. More than 67,000 of those machines were American, while China, Russia and the U.K. have suffered several thousand infections each. On Friday, that number was 100,000 globally. An average of 25,000 machines have been infected globally every day over the last week. Experts say the actual number is higher than Monday’s assessment because each count is slow and does always not catch everything […]
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Scans show tens of thousands of Windows servers infected with the DoublePulsar kernel exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers two weeks ago. Continue reading NSA’s DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit In Use Internet-Wide
Script kiddies and online criminals around the world have reportedly started exploiting NSA hacking tools leaked last weekend to compromise hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows computers exposed on the Internet.
Last week, the mysterious hackin… Continue reading Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Being Used to Hack Thousands of Vulnerable Windows PCs
Script kiddies and online criminals around the world have reportedly started exploiting NSA hacking tools leaked last weekend to compromise hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows computers exposed on the Internet.
Last week, the mysterious hackin… Continue reading Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Being Used to Hack Thousands of Vulnerable Windows PCs