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53: Shadow Brokers

Darknet Diaries

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Eternal Blue, the Most Successful Hacking Tool in History

Eternal blue is an exploit that can be used to remotely access windows computers running s m b. migrsoft had patched it just about a month before shadow brokers dropped this on the world. The nsa gave microsoft a very quiet heads up that this might be in an upcoming dump, so they can work on patching it before it hits the streets.

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