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  2. EternalBlue - Wikipedia

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    EternalBlue [5] is a computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). [6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network.

  3. WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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    This transport code scans for vulnerable systems, then uses the EternalBlue exploit to gain access, and the DoublePulsar tool to install and execute a copy of itself. [13] WannaCry versions 0, 1 and 2 were created using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 .

  4. The Shadow Brokers - Wikipedia

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    The Shadow Brokers (TSB) is a hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016. [1] [2] They published several leaks containing hacking tools, including several zero-day exploits, [1] from the "Equation Group" who are widely suspected to be a branch of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.

  5. DoublePulsar - Wikipedia

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    DoublePulsar is a backdoor implant tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) Equation Group that was leaked by The Shadow Brokers in early 2017. [3] [citation needed] The tool infected more than 200,000 Microsoft Windows computers in only a few weeks, [4] [5] [3] [6] [7] and was used alongside EternalBlue in the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack.

  6. Eternal Blue - Wikipedia

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    Eternal Blue may refer to: EternalBlue, a National Security Agency (USA) cyberattack exploit; Eternal Blue, a 2021 album by Spiritbox which takes its name from the exploit; Lunar: Eternal Blue, a role-playing video game by Game Arts and Studio Alex

  7. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    Uber's GitHub account was accessed through Amazon's cloud-based service. Uber paid the hackers $100,000 for assurances the data was destroyed. [105] December 2016: Yahoo! data breaches reported and affected more than 1 billion users. The data leakage includes user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted or unencrypted security ...

  8. Equation Group - Wikipedia

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    In 2015 Kaspersky's research findings on the Equation Group noted that its loader, "GrayFish", had similarities to a previously discovered loader, "Gauss", from another attack series, and separately noted that the Equation Group used two zero-day attacks later used in Stuxnet; the researchers concluded that "the similar type of usage of both exploits together in different computer worms, at ...

  9. Ransomware - Wikipedia

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    In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack spread through the Internet, using an exploit vector named EternalBlue, which was allegedly leaked from the U.S. National Security Agency. The ransomware attack, unprecedented in scale, [ 105 ] infected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries, [ 106 ] using 20 different languages to demand ...