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EternalBlue [5] is a computer ... made available as open sourced Metasploit modules. ... has substantial numbers of Windows machines that have gone 2 years without ...
EternalBlue was stolen and leaked by a group called The Shadow Brokers a month prior to the attack. While Microsoft had released patches previously to close the exploit, much of WannaCry's spread was from organizations that had not applied these, or were using older Windows systems that were past their end of life .
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.
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.
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
Part of the vulnerability related to the ability of non-administrators to install printer drivers on the system, such as shared printers on system without sharing password protection. [ 16 ] The organization which discovered the vulnerability, Sangfor, published a proof of concept in a public GitHub repository.
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 ...
Shellshock, also known as Bashdoor, [1] is a family of security bugs [2] in the Unix Bash shell, the first of which was disclosed on 24 September 2014.Shellshock could enable an attacker to cause Bash to execute arbitrary commands and gain unauthorized access [3] to many Internet-facing services, such as web servers, that use Bash to process requests.