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Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Caught Russian Spies Hacking American Spies, But…

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The cold cyber war has just turned hot.

According to a story published today by the New York Times, Israeli government hackers hacked into Kaspersky’s network in 2015 and caught Russian government hackers red-handed hacking US government hackers with the help of Kaspersky.

In other words — Russia spying on America, Israel spying on Russia and America spying on everyone.

What the F^#% is

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Shadow Brokers Leaks Another Windows Hacking Tool Stolen from NSA’s Arsenal

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The Shadow Brokers, a notorious hacking group that leaked several hacking tools from the NSA, is once again making headlines for releasing another NSA exploit—but only to its “monthly dump service” subscribers.

Dubbed UNITEDRAKE, the implant is a “fully extensible remote collection system” that comes with a number of “plug-ins,” enabling attackers to remotely take full control over targeted

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Cyberspies Are Using Leaked NSA Hacking Tools to Spy On Hotels Guests

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An infamous Russian-linked cyber-espionage group has been found re-using the same leaked NSA hacking tool that was deployed in the WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks—this time to target Wi-Fi networks to spy on hotel guests in several European countries.

Security researchers at FireEye have uncovered an ongoing campaign that remotely steals credentials from high-value guests using Wi-Fi networks

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‘Shadow Brokers’ Threatens to Unmask A Hacker Who Worked With NSA

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The Shadow Brokers, a notorious hacking group that leaked US cyberweapons — which were also abused by the recent ransomware disasters WannaCry and Petya or NotPetya — has now threatened to unmask the identity of a former hacker who worked for the NSA.

Besides this, the Shadow Brokers group has also doubled the price for its monthly subscription model of NSA’s built hacking tools and zero-day

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Newly Found Malware Uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools, Where WannaCry Uses 2

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A security researcher has identified a new strain of malware that also spreads itself by exploiting flaws in Windows SMB file sharing protocol, but unlike the WannaCry Ransomware that uses only two leaked NSA hacking tools, it exploits all the seven.

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More Hacking Groups Found Exploiting SMB Flaw Weeks Before WannaCry

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Since the Shadow Brokers released the zero-day software vulnerabilities and hacking tools – allegedly belonged to the NSA’s elite hacking team Equation Group – several hacking groups and individual hackers have started using them in their own way.

The April’s data dump was believed to be the most damaging release by the Shadow Brokers till the date, as it publicly leaked lots of Windows

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Shadow Brokers, Who Leaked WannaCry SMB Exploit, Are Back With More 0-Days

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The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers – the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend’s WannaCrypt menace – are back, this time, to cause more damage.

In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh statement (with full of frustration) a few hours ago, promising to release more zero-day bugs and exploits for various desktop and mobile

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WannaCry Ransomware That’s Hitting World Right Now Uses NSA Windows Exploit

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Update — After reading this article, if you want to know, what has happened so far in past 4 days and how to protect your computers from WannaCry, read our latest article “WannaCry Ransomware: Everything You Need To Know Immediately.” 

Earlier today, a massive ransomware campaign hit computer systems of hundreds of private companies and public organizations across the globe – which is

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Massive Cyber Attack Cripples UK Hospitals, Spreads Globally

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A massive ransomware attack is currently under way. It was first widely reported having crippled the UK hospital system, but has since spread to numerous other systems throughout the world including FedEx in the US, the Russian Interior Ministry, and telecommunications firms in Spain and Russia.

The virus is known by names WannaCrypt, WannaCry, and a few other variants. It spreads using the ExternalBlue exploit in unpatched Windows machines older than version 10. The tools used to pull off this attack were likely from an NSA toolset leaked by the Shadow Brokers.

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Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Being Used to Hack Thousands of Vulnerable Windows PCs

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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.

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