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Tens of thousands Windows systems implanted with NSA’s DoublePulsar

April 24, 2017

Has your Windows machine been implanted with NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor? If you haven’t implemented the security updates released by Microsoft in March, chances …

Oracle fixes Solaris 10 flaw targeted by leaked NSA exploit

April 19, 2017

Oracle has pushed out a record-breaking 299 fixes for vulnerabilities in its many, many products, and among them is a Solaris 10 bug whose existence has been revealed through …

Shadow Brokers data dump reveals yet another NSA-Stuxnet link

April 18, 2017

When the Shadow Brokers dumped on Friday another batch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, which has been linked to the NSA, security researchers dove right in. …

Microsoft patched the flaws allowing leaked Windows exploits to work

April 15, 2017

Microsoft has patched the vulnerabilities that allowed nine of the exploits released by the Shadow Brokers on Friday to work, and said that of the three remaining exploits, …

Hacking tools in Vault 7 data dump linked to prolific cyber espionage group

April 11, 2017

While security researchers and companies go through the collection of hacking tools contained in the data dump that the Shadow Brokers failed to sell, Symantec has tied …

Shadow Brokers say goodbye, leak a batch of Windows hacking tools

January 13, 2017

The Shadow Brokers, a group (?) of hackers that has made a big splash in August last year by leaking and offering for sale exploits supposedly stolen from the infamous …

BENIGNCERTAIN-like flaw affects various Cisco networking devices

September 19, 2016

The leaking of BENIGNCERTAIN, an NSA exploit targeting a vulnerability in legacy Cisco PIX firewalls that allows attackers to eavesdrop on VPN traffic, has spurred Cisco to …

Cisco starts publishing fixes for EXTRABACON exploit

August 29, 2016

Starting last Wednesday, Cisco has begun publishing fixes for the SNMP RCE flaw in the software of its Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA), which can be triggered through the …

Leaked EXTRABACON exploit can work on newer Cisco ASA firewalls

August 24, 2016

EXTRABACON, one of the Equation Group exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers, can be made to work on a wider range of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls than …

Implant leaked by Shadow Brokers targets Juniper’s NetScreen firewalls

August 23, 2016

Juniper Networks has become the latest company to acknowledge that one of the implants leaked by the Shadow Brokers targets some of their products. Cisco and Fortinet did the …

Shadow Brokers, digital attacks, and the escalation of geopolitical conflict

August 23, 2016

Last week’s data dump by the Shadow Brokers has left many wondering how the US will respond. This is just the latest in a series of politically motivated data breaches often …

Snowden documents definitely link Shadow Brokers’ leak to the NSA

August 22, 2016

Last week, Cisco and Fortinet confirmed that the exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers and aimed at compromising their networking devices work as intended, but the origin of …

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