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...

After Failed Auction, Shadow Brokers Opens NSA Hacking Tools for Direct Sales

Remember The Shadow Brokers? The hacker group that's believed to be behind the high-profile cyber theft of NSA hacking tools and exploits that sparked a larger debate on the Internet concerning abilities of US intelligence agencies and their own security The group put the stolen cyber weapons on...

Risk of Election Day Cyberattacks Low According To Cyber Chatter

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets say so far, so good. They don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack come Election Day. That’s not to say the U.S. government isn’t ready for the worst. The White...

ShadowBrokers Dumps List of Equation Group Hacked Servers

The ShadowBrokers’ last two bits of outreach to the world lacked the oomph of August’s showstopper dump of Equation Group zero days, but the group is more than making up for it in severely broken English political banter, and another plea to buy the full boat of NSA exploits it allegedly has...

Shadow Brokers reveals list of Servers Hacked by the NSA

The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked a portion of the NSA’s hacking tools and exploits, is back with a Bang! The Shadow Brokers published more files today, and this time the group dumped a list of foreign servers allegedly compromised by the...

Ex-NSA Contractor Stole 50 TB of Classified Data; Includes Top-Secret Hacking Tools

Almost two months ago, the FBI quietly arrested NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III for stealing an enormous number of top secret documents from the intelligence agency. Now, according to a court document filed Thursday, the FBI seized at least 50 terabytes of data from 51-year-old Martin tha...