Microsoft Releases Patches for 3 Remaining NSA Windows Exploits

Did you know… last month's widespread WannaCry ransomware attack forced Microsoft to release security updates against EternalBlue SMB exploit for unsupported versions of Windows, but the company left other three Windows zero-day exploits unpatched? For those unaware, EternalBlue is a Windows SMB...

Risk of 'Destructive Cyber Attacks' Prompts Microsoft to Update XP Again

Fearing destructive attacks precipitated by the availability of the nation-state exploits in the wild that spawned the WannaCry outbreak, Microsoft today announced that its Patch Tuesday updates would include fixes for older versions of Windows, including XP. The move is unusual and mimics a...

Attackers Mining Cryptocurrency Using Exploits for Samba Vulnerability

Unknown attackers are using a recently patched vulnerability in Samba to spread a resource-intensive cryptocurrency mining utility. To date, the operation has netted the attackers just under $6,000 USD, but the number of compromised computers is growing, meaning that a significant number of Samba...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

On Porting EternalBlue to Windows, Facebook Phishing, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including how EternalBlue was ported to Windows 10, a Facebook phishing study, QakBot, and this week’s Apple announcements. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJune92017.mp3...

Windows 10 Mitigations Make Future EternalBlue Attacks Difficult

The emergence of a port of the EternalBlue exploit to Windows 10 signals that white-hat researchers have likely done what the NSA has already long ago accomplished. The leaked version of the powerful Windows SMB attack shared by the ShadowBrokers in April was built only to attack Windows XP and...

NSA's EternalBlue Exploit Ported to Windows 10

The NSA’s EternalBlue exploit has been ported to Windows 10 by white hats, meaning that every unpatched version of the Microsoft operating system back to Windows XP—and likely earlier—can be affected by one of the most powerful attacks ever made public. Researchers at RiskSense, among the first t...

NSA Arsenal: CVE-2017-9073 EsteemAudit analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In April, one named“shadow broker,”the organization publish a part of them from the NSA to steal the exploit tool, mainly for the windows operating system. One of the most famous is the ransomware WanaCryp0t use / exploit"EternalBlue"in. Another is the release to use the tool for the CVE-2017-907...

Metasploit Wrapup

It has only been one week since the last wrapup, so it's not like much could have happened, right? Wrong! Misery Loves Company After last week's excitement with Metasploit's version of ETERNALBLUE AKA the Wannacry vulnerability, this week SAMBA had its own "Hold My Beer" moment with the disclosur...

EternalBlue Exploit Spreading Gh0st RAT, Nitol

EternalBlue, the exploit used in the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, is now being leveraged to distribute the Nitol backdoor and Gh0st RAT malware. Security researchers at FireEye said, just as WannaCry criminals did, threat actors are leveraging the same Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol...

Threat actors leverage EternalBlue exploit to deliver non-WannaCry payloads

The “EternalBlue” exploit MS017-010 was initially used by WannaCry ransomware and Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Now more threat actors are leveraging the vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol – this time to distribute Backdoor.Nitol and Trojan Gh0st RAT. FireEye Dynamic...

Threat actors leverage EternalBlue exploit to deliver non-WannaCry payloads

The “EternalBlue” exploit MS017-010 was initially used by WannaCry ransomware and Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Now more threat actors are leveraging the vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol – this time to distribute Backdoor.Nitol and Trojan Gh0st RAT. FireEye Dynamic...

Threat actors leverage EternalBlue exploit to deliver non-WannaCry payloads

The “EternalBlue” exploit MS017-010 was initially used by WannaCry ransomware and Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Now more threat actors are leveraging the vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol – this time to distribute Backdoor.Nitol and Trojan Gh0st RAT. FireEye Dynamic...

WannaCry Development Errors Enable File Recovery

WannaCry may have caused worldwide havoc on May 12 when it rode the coattails of the NSA’s weaponized EternalBlue exploit to infect computers in 150 countries, but that doesn’t mean it was a quality piece of ransomware. A number of programming errors in the code are floating to the surface and...

smb-vuln-ms17-010 NSE Script

Attempts to detect if a Microsoft SMBv1 server is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability ms17-010, a.k.a. EternalBlue. The vulnerability is actively exploited by WannaCry and Petya ransomware and other malware. The script connects to the $IPC tree, executes a transaction on FID 0 and...

Metasploit Wrapup

It has been an intense couple of weeks in infosec since the last Wrapup and we've got some cool things for you in the latest update. Hacking like No Such Agency I'll admit I was wrong. For several years, I've been saying we'll never see another bug like MS08-067, a full remote hole in a default...

SMB Exploited: WannaCry Use of EternalBlue

Server Message Block SMB is the transport protocol used by Windows machines for a wide variety of purposes such as file sharing, printer sharing, and access to remote Windows services. SMB operates over TCP ports 139 and 445. In April 2017, Shadow Brokers released an SMB vulnerability named...

SMB Exploited: WannaCry Use of "EternalBlue"

Server Message Block SMB is the transport protocol used by Windows machines for a wide variety of purposes such as file sharing, printer sharing, and access to remote Windows services. SMB operates over TCP ports 139 and 445. In April 2017, Shadow Brokers released an SMB vulnerability named...

Vulnerability Management Tips for the Shadow Brokers Leaked Exploits

Rebekah Brown and the Rapid7 team have delivered a spot-on breakdown of the recent Shadow Brokers exploit and tool release. Before you read any further, if you havent done so already, please read her post. Its probably not the only post youve read on this topic, but it is cogent, well-constructed...

7-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely

A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Samba networking software that could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected Linux and Unix machines. Samba is open-source software re-implementation of SMB networking protocol that runs on the majorit...