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Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2017

Shadow Brokers sent out first round of exploits and threaten to dox former NSA hacker

Shadow Brokers has sent out the first round of exploits to the subscribers of its service, the hackers also threaten to dox former NSA hacker. In May the notorious Shadow Brokers group announced the launch of a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for $21,000 per month. The group claimed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2017

National Security Agency opens the NSA Github Account that already lists 32 Projects

It is official, the National Security Agency (NSA) has presented its GitHub page that includes 32 projects as part of the NSA Technology Transfer Program. The National Security Agency has opened its GitHub account and presented an official GitHub page. The US intelligence agency employees numerous excellent experts that in the past demonstrated extraordinary abilities […]

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 […]

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Shadow Brokers sent out first round of exploits and threaten to dox former NSA hacker

National Security Agency opens the NSA Github Account that already lists 32 Projects

FBI arrests NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking top-secret report

Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors

You can take Shadow Brokers Zero Day Exploit Subscriptions for $21,000 per month

NSA EsteemAudit exploit could trigger a new WannaCry-like attack

WannaCry – Important lessons from the first NSA-powered ransomware cyberattack

NSA Cyber Weapons installed in High Profile Targets in Greece

NSA announces it will stop surveillance activities on emails, texts and other internet communications

Hackers compromised thousands of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools DOUBLEPULSAR and ETERNALBLUE

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