Security researcher Elad Erez has created a tool named Eternal Blues that system administrators can use to test if computers on their network are vulnerable to exploitation via NSA's ETERNALBLUE ...

The tool was used by North Korea for the widespread WannaCry attack in 2017, which targeted the British health care system, German railroads and about 200,000 organizations worldwide.

Before the Shadow Brokers dumped the Eternal Blue tool online, the NSA reportedly warned Microsoft and the company developed a protective patch."But a lot of organizations like the city of ...

The National Security Agency told Rep. C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger on Friday that a hacking tool the agency is believed to have created was not a factor in the Baltimore ransomware attack, the congre… ...

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An attack on Tuesday featuring Eternal Blue was the second of these to use stolen NSA cyber tools—disrupting everything from radiation monitoring at Chernobyl to shipping operations in India.

Tools such as EternalBlues and others, Erez said, are vital for large networks, even those that may have applied the MS17-010 patch eradicating EternalBlue. One vulnerable endpoint is enough for ...

Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by “Eternal Blue,” a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security ...

Back in 2017, the National Security Agency lost control of one of its hacking tools called EternalBlue.Since the hacking tool slipped into the world, it has been picked up by hackers in North ...

Security firm Symantec confirmed that Petya uses the “Eternal Blue” exploit, a digital weapon that was believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency and in April 2017 ...