NSA

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017
FBI arrests NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking top-secret report

The FBI agents arrested the NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking the top-secret report, here’s how she was identified. Yesterday the online news outlet The Intercept published a top-secret NSA report that shows Russian state-sponsored hackers tried repeatedly to hack the US voting systems before last 2016 Presidential election. A few hours later, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2017
Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors

Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors will start using the hacking tools and exploits in the wild. The Shadow Brokers hacker group is going to launch a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for (100 Zcash), approximately $24,450 per month. The hacking tools and exploits that will […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2017
You can take Shadow Brokers Zero Day Exploit Subscriptions for $21,000 per month

Shadow Brokers is going to launch a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for $21,000 per month. A couple of weeks ago, while security experts were debating about WannaCry ransomware and the NSA exploits it used, the Shadow Brokers group revealed its plan to sell off new exploits every month starting from June. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2017
NSA EsteemAudit exploit could trigger a new WannaCry-like attack

Security experts from enSilo firm released a free patch for Windows systems vulnerable to the NSA-linked ESTEEMAUDIT Exploit. The WannaCry emergency could not be ended because the NSA dump leaked by the Shadow Brokers team included many other dangerous exploits. Last months the Shadow Brokers group released another batch of data containing exploit codes still unpatched by Microsoft such as […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2017
WannaCry – Important lessons from the first NSA-powered ransomware cyberattack

Last Friday, a weaponized version of an NSA exploit was used to infect over two hundred thousand computers in over 150 countries with the WannaCry ransomware. In addition to government ministries and transportation infrastructure, the British National Health Service (NHS) was crippled, disrupting treatment and care for thousands of patients, and putting countless lives at […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2017
NSA Cyber Weapons installed in High Profile Targets in Greece

The installation of monitoring software has been conducted either by NSA highly sophisticated hacking team or by hackers who leveraged the tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers. Last week, a collection of spy tools allegedly used by the National Security Agency for operations against global targets of interest was leaked online by the underground hacking group, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2017
NSA announces it will stop surveillance activities on emails, texts and other internet communications

NSA announces a change in its surveillance activities, it will no longer spy on citizens’ emails, texts, and other Internet communications. It is official, the US NSA announced it will no longer spy on emails, texts and other internet communications that mention targets of surveillance.The NSA issued the official statement last week, announcing a historical change of tactic […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2017
Hackers compromised thousands of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools DOUBLEPULSAR and ETERNALBLUE

Security researcher warn of hackers compromised thousands of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools DOUBLEPULSAR and ETERNALBLUE Security expert Dan Tentler, the founder of security shop Phobos Group, has observed a significant increase in the number of Windows boxes exposed on the Internet that has been hacked with DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor. The compromised windows boxes have been used […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2017
The alleged link between the Shadow Brokers data leak and the Stuxnet cyber weapon

Security researchers who analyzed the documents and hacking tools included in the last Shadow Brokers dump found a link to the Stuxnet virus. On Friday, the Shadow Brokers leaked a new bunch of files belonging to the alleged NSA arsenal. Security researchers who analyzed the documents and hacking tools included in the last dump have […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2017
Microsoft says it has fixed exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers in March

Microsoft determined that most of the flaws exploited by the tools in the dump released by Shadow Brokers yesterday were patched in March. Yesterday the Shadow Brokers hacker group has released a new portion of the alleged archive of the NSA containing hacking tools and exploits. The group released a 117.9 MB encrypted dump containing […]