On SOURCE Boston, DoublePulsar, and HipChat

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week in news, including the long term implications of the NSA’s DoublePulsar exploit, and the HipChat breach. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapApril282017.mp3...

360Vulcan: the NSA Arsenal of Eternalromance (eternal romance) vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In the Shadow Brokers disclosed the NSA's hacking Arsenal, Eternalromance eternal romance is the impact of Windows full platform SMBv1 vulnerability attack tool that has been Microsoft patch MS17-010 repair, Windows XP and 2003, etc. is not Microsoft support period of the system version without t...

NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit In Use Internet-Wide

If you’re on a red team or have been on the receiving end of a pen-test report from one, then you’ve almost certainly encountered reports of Windows servers vulnerable to Conficker MS08-067, which has been in the wild now for nearly 10 years since the bug was patched. A little more than two weeks...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Being Used to Hack Thousands of Vulnerable Windows PCs

Script kiddies and online criminals around the world have reportedly started exploiting NSA hacking tools leaked last weekend to compromise hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows computers exposed on the Internet. Last week, the mysterious hacking group known as Shadow Brokers leaked a set o...

ShadowBroker release of NSA tools in the Esteemaudit vulnerability reproduction process-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently the infamous equation tissue kit again is disclosed, TheShadowBrokers in steemit. com blog provides related message. The following is one of Esteemaudit vulnerability reproduction process. Preparation IP System information Use Note 192.168.146.132 Windows xp Attack aircraft Need Ann...

Record Oracle Patch Update Addresses ShadowBrokers, Struts 2 Vulnerabilities

Oracle released its biggest Critical Patch Update ever on Tuesday, and with it came added urgency in the form of patches for the Solaris vulnerabilities exposed by the ShadowBrokers last week, as well as the recent Apache Struts 2 vulnerability, also under public attack. In all, Oracle admins hav...

In-depth analysis of the N. S. A. took 5 years of IIS vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Source: Xuanwu lab Author: Ke Liu of Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab The 1. Vulnerability description 1.1 exploit description 2017 3 November 27, from South China University of technology the Zhiniang Peng and Chen Wu in GitHub 1 discloses an IIS 6.0 vulnerability exploit code, and specify its may 2016 7...

The Shadow Brokers Leaked Exploits Explained

The Rapid7 team has been busy evaluating the threats posed by last Fridays Shadow Broker exploit and tool release and answering questions from colleagues, customers, and family members about the release. We know that many people have questions about exactly what was released, the threat it poses,...

ShadowBrokers' Windows Zero-Days Already Patched

Hours after what was thought to be a damaging release of NSA hacking tools for Windows systems, Microsoft quelled some anxiety with a late-night statement on Friday that most of the vulnerabilities disclosed by the ShadowBrokers had already been patched. The biggest surprise was that the most...

ShadowBrokers Expose NSA Access to SWIFT Service Bureaus

The NSA used exploits to target two SWIFT Service Bureaus in order to access banking data from a number of financial institutions in the Middle East. The access was likely used to monitor funding for terrorist operations, experts said today as analysis continues of the latest ShadowBrokers dump o...

Major Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System

The Shadow Brokers hacker group is back with another trove of NSA documents including Windows exploits and evidence of financial spying in the Middle East. The post Major Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System appeared first on WIRED...

Latest Hacking Tools Leak Indicates NSA Was Targeting SWIFT Banking Network

Update: Most of the exploits made publicly available mentioned in this article by the Shadow Brokers group are already patched by Microsoft in the last month's Patch Tuesday update. So, it is always recommended that you keep your systems up-to-date in order to prevent you from being hacked. The...

Shadow Brokers Group Releases More Stolen NSA Hacking Tools & Exploits

Remember The Shadow Brokers? They are back. A hackers group that previously claimed to have stolen a bunch of hacking tools malware, zero-day exploits, and implants created by the NSA and gained popularity last year for leaking a portion of those tools is back. Today, The Shadow Brokers group...

Google Achieves First-Ever Successful SHA-1 Collision Attack

SHA-1, Secure Hash Algorithm 1, a very popular cryptographic hashing function designed in 1995 by the NSA, is officially dead after a team of researchers from Google and the CWI Institute in Amsterdam announced today submitted the first ever successful SHA-1 collision attack. SHA-1 was designed i...

White House Approves New Rules for Sharing of Raw Intelligence Data

President Obama last week approved a change in the way the National Security Agency shares raw signals intelligence data with the rest of the U.S. intelligence community, a shift that privacy experts worry will erode the civil liberties of Americans. An unclassified document released by the Offic...

ShadowBrokers Bid Farewell, Close Doors

The ShadowBrokers are no more. The group or individual responsible for multiple leaks of exploits and attack tools believed to belong to the NSA said today they have closed up shop and deleted all of their online accounts. “Despite theories, it always being about bitcoins for TheShadowBrokers. Fr...

ShadowBrokers Selling Windows Exploits, Attack Tools

The latest Shadowbrokers dump of alleged NSA tools—a cache of Windows exploits—surfaced over the weekend. And for the first time since these unannounced releases started last summer, analysts don’t have the luxury of a free set of files to dig in to. The group is selling the database for 750...

Stolen NSA "Windows Hacking Tools" Now Up For Sale!

The Shadow Brokers who previously stole and leaked a portion of the NSA hacking tools and exploits is back with a Bang! The hacking group is now selling another package of hacking tools, “Equation Group Windows Warez,” which includes Windows exploits and antivirus bypass tools, stolen from the...

Dell SonicWALL Network Security Appliance NSA 6600 XSS

i? Dell SonicWALL Network Security Appliance NSA 6600 Reflected XSS Vendor: Dell Inc. Product web page: https://www.sonicwall.com/products/sonicwall-nsa/ Affected version: NSA 6600 running SonicOS Enhanced 6.2.4.3-31n WXA 4000 running 1.3.2.0-07 SafeMode 6.1.0.11 Summary: Uncompromising security...

ShadowBrokers Dump Came from Internal Code Repository, Insider

Update An analysis of the latest ShadowBrokers dump of alleged NSA spy tools points to an insider with access to a code repository belonging to the intelligence agency, experts said. Researchers at security company Flashpoint said today that its investigation of the leaked data points away from a...