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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 .
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.
This means that the entry number has been reserved by Mitre for an issue or a CNA has reserved the number. So when a CNA requests a block of CVE numbers in advance (e.g., Red Hat currently requests CVEs in blocks of 500), the CVE number will be marked as reserved even though the CVE itself may not be assigned by the CNA for some time.
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 ...
A number of experts highlighted the NSA's non-disclosure of the underlying vulnerability, and their loss of control over the EternalBlue attack tool that exploited it. Edward Snowden said that if the NSA had "privately disclosed the flaw used to attack hospitals when they found it, not when they lost it, the attack may not have happened". [107]
A number of Windows applications such as Microsoft Internet Information Services use the SChannel Security Service Provider to manage these certificates and are vulnerable to the attack. [ 8 ] It was later discovered in November 2014 that the attack could be executed even if the ISS Server was set to ignore SSL Certificates, as the function was ...
A proof of concept (PoC) exploit code was published 1 June 2020 on GitHub by a security researcher. [8] [10] The code could possibly spread to millions of unpatched computers, resulting in as much as tens of billions of dollars in losses.
In August 2023 a vulnerability in AMD's Zen 1, Zen 2, Zen 3, and Zen 4 microarchitectures called Inception [61] [62] was revealed and assigned CVE-2023-20569. According to AMD it is not practical but the company will release a microcode update for the affected products.