CVE-2019-1040

A tampering vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when a man-in-the-middle attacker is able to successfully bypass the NTLM MIC Message Integrity Check protection, aka ‘Windows NTLM Tampering Vulnerability’. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at October 20, 2020 6:01pm UTC reported: This is now...

BlueKeep 'Mega-Worm' Looms as Fresh PoC Shows Full System Takeover

A researcher has created a proof-of-concept Metasploit module for the critical BlueKeep vulnerability, which successfully demonstrates how to achieve complete takeover of a target Windows machine. Reverse engineer Zǝɹosum0x0 tweeted about his success on Tuesday, noting that he plans to keep the...

NSA Releases Advisory on BlueKeep Vulnerability

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory for CVE-2019-0708—a vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep. Although Microsoft has issued a patch, potentially millions of machines are still unpatched and remain vulnerable. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA...

CVE-2019-11580

Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center had the pdkinstall development plugin incorrectly enabled in release builds. Attackers who can send unauthenticated or authenticated requests to a Crowd or Crowd Data Center instance can exploit this vulnerability to install arbitrary plugins, which permits...

Baltimore city ransomware attack is powered by stolen NSA hacking tool

By Uzair Amir This time the hacking tool being used is EternalBlue. The New York Times has reported that the recent ransomware attacks in major US cities specifically Baltimore are closely linked together due to the fact that the key component in all the campaigns is a stolen NSA tool EternalBlue...

NSA Hawaii

Recently I've heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening post on Oahu. Not a whole lot of actual information. "We're in office building, in a pineapple field, on Oahu...." And part of i...

Visiting the NSA

Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein Center and funded by the Hewlett Foundation. BERKman hewLETT -- get it? We have a web page, but it's badly out of...

Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64

A weird paper was posted on the Cryptology ePrint Archive working link is via the Wayback Machine, claiming an attack against the NSA-designed cipher SIMON. You can read some commentary about it here. Basically, the authors claimed an attack so devastating that they would only publish a...

Another NSA Leaker Identified and Charged

In 2015, the Intercept started publishing "The Drone Papers," based on classified documents leaked by an unknown whistleblower. Today, someone who worked at the NSA, and then at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was charged with the crime. It is unclear how he was initially identified...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since, then the vulnerabilities and tools have been used by both government and criminals, and put the NSA's...

Chinese Spies Stole NSA Cyberweapons Long Before Shadow Brokers Leak

Hacking tools allegedly developed by the National Security Agency NSA were being used in the wild by at least one APT long before the Shadow Brokers released the now-infamous trove of U.S. cyberweapons, new analysis suggests. According to researchers at Symantec, an attack group affiliated with t...

Chinese hackers accessed NSA hacking tools before Shadow Brokers leak

By Ryan De Souza Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency NSA and exploit them to attack American private...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked them. According to a new report published by...

The Strange Journey of an NSA Zero-Day—Into Multiple Enemies' Hands

How a "secret" hackable bug found by the NSA was used over by Chinese, North Korean, and Russian hackers to wreak havoc...

Thousands of firms hit by Beapy malware using NSA hacking tools

By Ryan De Souza EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools are back in action. Symantec security researchers have identified that cybercriminals are still utilizing the classified exploits/hacking tools of the National Security Agency NSA, which were stolen about two years back. The new malware...

New Version of Flame Malware Discovered

Flame was discovered in 2012, linked to Stuxnet, and believed to be American in origin. It has recently been linked to more modern malware through new analysis tools that find linkages between different software. Seems that Flame did not disappear after it was discovered, as was previously though...

Ghidra: NSA's Reverse-Engineering Tool

Last month, the NSA released Ghidra, a software reverse-engineering tool. Early reactions are uniformly positive. Three news articles...

NSA Releases GHIDRA Source Code — Free Reverse Engineering Tool

Update 4/4/2019 — Great news. NSA today finally released the complete source code for GHIDRA version 9.0.2 which is now available on its Github repository. GHIDRA is agency's home-grown classified software reverse engineering tool that agency experts have been using internally for over a decade t...

It’s Time to End the NSA’s Metadata Collection Program

Opinion: Congress needs to pull the plug and end the authority for the CDR program...

NSA-Inspired Vulnerability Found in Huawei Laptops

This is an interesting story of a serious vulnerability in a Huawei driver that Microsoft found. The vulnerability is similar in style to the NSA's DOUBLEPULSAR that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers -- believed to be the Russian government -- and it's obvious that this attack copied that techniqu...