Windows 10: Hacking tools were stolen from NSA - Almost all Windows affected

Discus and support Hacking tools were stolen from NSA - Almost all Windows affected in AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security to solve the problem; From here: Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8 â€¢ The Register Make of that what you will. *Thumbs Thanks for the... Discussion in 'AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security' started by AndreTen, Apr 14, 2017.

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ANDRETEN

AndreTen Win User

Hacking tools were stolen from NSA - Almost all Windows affected

From here: Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8 â€¢ The Register

Make of that what you will.
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*Thumbs Thanks for the heads up clam1952. I think, at this point, more info we have, the better for us

AndreTen, Apr 14, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

Hickey said the Windows exploits leaked on Friday could be used to conduct espionage and target critical data in Windows-based environments. Consumers using Windows PCs could be at risk, though experts say these kinds of tools are more commonly used to target businesses.
"The individual consumer is a little less at risk, as these kinds of tools are targeted at enterprise and business environments," Hickey said.
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NSA's powerful Windows hacking tools leaked online - Apr. 14, 2017

simrick, Apr 15, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

Update: April 15, 2017
Late Friday night, Microsoft published a blog post stating that after an analysis of the ShadowBrokers leak, it had determined that most of the vulnerabilities were patched in a series of Windows updates released in March — updates that security researchers who analyzed the NSA tools apparently neglected to install. This means the exploits in question were not in fact “zero days” and that anyone running the most recent updates on software still supported by Microsoft is safe from the ShadowBrokers arsenal. But the timing of the patch in question is interesting: If Microsoft truly did not receive any help from the NSA, as it claims, the fact that it fixed a litany of holes vulnerable to secret NSA tools exactly a month before those tools were made public is an amazingly fortunate coincidence (curiously, Microsoft skipped the usual acknowledgements section with the patch, which typically nods to how they were informed of the threats fixed in a given update). At any rate, this is certainly good news for Windows users who keep their computers up to date, good news for Microsoft, and still very bad news for the NSA.
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Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
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simrick, Apr 15, 2017

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TONY K

Tony K Win User

Hacking tools were stolen from NSA - Almost all Windows affected

Thanks for that good news, @simrick. *Thumbs

Tony K, Apr 15, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

10,000 Windows computers may be infected by advanced NSA backdoor | Ars Technica

Security experts believe that tens of thousands of Windows computers may have been infected by a highly advanced National Security Agency backdoor. The NSA backdoor was included in last week's leak by the mysterious group known as Shadow Brokers.

DoublePulsar, as the NSA implant is code-named, was detected on more than 107,000 computers in one Internet scan. That scan was performed over the past few days by researchers from Binary Edge, a security firm headquartered in Switzerland. Binary Edge has more here. Separate mass scans, one done by Errata Security CEO Rob Graham and another by researchers from Below0day, detected roughly 41,000 and 30,000 infected machines, respectively. To remain stealthy, DoublePulsar doesn't write any files to the computers it infects. This design prevents it from persisting after an infected machine is rebooted. The lack of persistence may be one explanation for the widely differing results.

Not everyone is convinced the results are accurate. Even 30,000 infections sounds extremely high for an implant belonging to the NSA, a highly secretive agency that almost always prefers to abort a mission over risking it being detected. Critics speculate that a bug in a widely used detection script is generating false positives. Over the past 24 hours—as additional scans have continued to detect between 30,000 and 60,000 infections—a new theory has emerged: copycat hackers downloaded the DoublePulsar binary released by Shadow Brokers. The copycats then used it to infect unpatched Windows computers.
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In a statement issued several hours after this post went live, Microsoft officials wrote: "We doubt the accuracy of the reports and are investigating." For the moment, readers should consider the results of these scans tentative and allow for the possibility that false positives are exaggerating the number of real-world infections. At the same time, people should know that there's growing consensus that from 30,000 to 107,000 Windows machines may be infected by DoublePulsar. Once hijacked, those computers may be open to other attacks.
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simrick, Apr 21, 2017

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ANDRETEN

AndreTen Win User

Thanks for the update simrick.

have read about it on Softpedia today. ARS is missing this statement, which is important from my point of view...

Vulnerability patched in March
The worst thing is that the vulnerability that hackers are trying to exploit was already patched by Microsoft in March this year with MS17-010, so this means that systems that got compromised weren’t actually running this update.
The patch is aimed at systems running Windows Vista SP2 and newer, so users on Windows XP can be easily infected, with no way to deploy the patch because support is no longer provided. Everyone else needs to deploy the patch as soon as possible.
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AndreTen, Apr 21, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

Thanks for the update .

have read about it on Softpedia today. ARS is missing this statement, which is important from my point of view..

Vulnerability patched in March
The worst thing is that the vulnerability that hackers are trying to exploit was already patched by Microsoft in March this year with MS17-010, so this means that systems that got compromised weren’t actually running this update.
The patch is aimed at systems running Windows Vista SP2 and newer, so users on Windows XP can be easily infected, with no way to deploy the patch because support is no longer provided. Everyone else needs to deploy the patch as soon as possible.
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Yes - very important!

simrick, Apr 21, 2017

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ELBMEK

elbmek Win User

Hacking tools were stolen from NSA - Almost all Windows affected

its a dastardly plot by MS to make you all buy new pc's *Eek

elbmek, Apr 21, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

its a dastardly plot by MS to make you all buy new pc's *Eek
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*chuckle

simrick, Apr 22, 2017

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WILEY COYOTE

Wiley Coyote Win User

simrick, you think his paranoia's showing?

Wiley Coyote, Apr 22, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

, you think his paranoia's showing?
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*Roflmao2

simrick, Apr 22, 2017

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ELBMEK

elbmek Win User

My paranoia is on the first Black Sabbath album. *Devil

elbmek, Apr 22, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

Hacking tools were stolen from NSA - Almost all Windows affected

My paranoia is on the first Black Sabbath album. *Devil
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*Roflmao2*Thumbs Love it!

simrick, Apr 22, 2017

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JIMBO45

jimbo45 Win User

The NSA develop them.
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Hi there

If the NSA develop them (or "acquire" them by various means - fair or foul) then so can others -- by what "Divine Right of Kings" do people assume that the NSA has the best brains in the universe -- probably a 15 year old Russian Hacker if so inclined could do the same.

Over many years in my working life I have rarely found that the "Best Brains" (whatever that means these days) rarely graduate towards public service.

The best way to be safe is not to have anything on your computer these organisations would be interested in and obviously as well use the Internet safely -- and if surfing / using "dubious sites" use tools like VPN and / or TOR etc. Don't open dubious emails, replyour local Windows stuff on a Windows VM.

Of course another alternative (but not immune against determined hackers) is to use LINUX for Internet surfing and just run your local Windows stuff on a Windows VM where possible.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45, Apr 22, 2017

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SIMRICK

simrick Win User

Hi there

If the NSA develop them (or "acquire" them by various means - fair or foul) then so can others -- by what "Divine Right of Kings" do people assume that the NSA has the best brains in the universe -- probably a 15 year old Russian Hacker if so inclined could do the same.

Over many years in my working life I have rarely found that the "Best Brains" (whatever that means these days) rarely graduate towards public service.

The best way to be safe is not to have anything on your computer these organisations would be interested in and obviously as well use the Internet safely -- and if surfing / using "dubious sites" use tools like VPN and / or TOR etc. Don't open dubious emails, replyour local Windows stuff on a Windows VM.

Of course another alternative (but not immune against determined hackers) is to use LINUX for Internet surfing and just run your local Windows stuff on a Windows VM where possible.

Cheers
jimbo
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Regardless of "how" the NSA got these tools, the fact remains that they are nation-state-grade hacking tools. This is serious stuff.

And, you do realize TOR has been breached by them?

Regardless, safe computer practice, as you say, is always the best. *Smile

simrick, Apr 22, 2017

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