Saturday, May 13, 2017

Ransomware Attacks Use NSA Exploits

Extremetech reports here that the worldwide ransomware attack---Britain's NHS is only one of its many targets---makes use of the Eternalblue exploit from the leaked NSA documents. This exploit seems to affect primarily older Windows systems.  However, both IT and cyber-physical systems are not easily updated so many systems are still vulnerable.

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