This exploit was one of many uncovered and dumped for public use last month by the Shadow
Brokers hacking group, widely believed to be connected to the Russian government.
Not exact matches
The US could retaliate against Russia in the form of a military offensive, shutting down specific portions of its cyber capabilities or stealing and publishing
hacking tools used by Russian intelligence — much like the Russia - linked
group the Shadow
Brokers did with US cyberweapons in 2016.
Windows consumers woke up on Saturday to some good news: Microsoft says it has already patched a series of potentially catastrophic
hacks, published on Good Friday by the hacker
group known as the Shadow
Brokers.
In April, it was reported that a mysterious hacker
group known as the Shadow
Brokers leaked a trove of NSA and CIA
hacking tools, exposing how intelligence agencies use ransomware and even smart TVs to spy.
The Shadow
Brokers have already prompted a major internal investigation inside the NSA with the arrest of at least one agent accused of stealing 75 percent of the
hacking tools belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations
group.
Starting last summer, a
group calling itself the «Shadow
Brokers» began to post software tools that came from the United States government's stockpile of
hacking weapons.
Bitcoin rose after reports Japanese online
broker Monex
Group is looking to take over recently
hacked crypto exchange Coincheck.
Bitcoin prices rose Tuesday after reports that Japanese online
broker Monex
Group is looking to take over a recently
hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.
The
group previously teased the new monthly dump service in mid-May, four days after the WannaCry ransomware wreaked havoc across the world using two
hacking tools the Shadow
Brokers leaked online in mid-April.
In a message posted online early this morning, the Shadow
Brokers — the cyber-espionage
group believed to have stolen
hacking tools from the NSA — announced new details about their upcoming «monthly dump service.»
Hacker
group Shadow
Brokers has allegedly proved that the US National Security Agency (NSA)
hacked SWIFT international banking network.
Japanese online
broker Monex
Group said Friday it would buy virtual currency exchange Coincheck, which was hit by a massive
hack that saw thieves steal hundreds of millions of dollars in virtual...