Windows 10: Shadow Brokers Release Zero Day Exploit Tools

For what it's worth, is the following of any interest?
"On Friday, a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers publicly released a large number of functional exploit tools. Several of these tools make use of zero-day vulnerabilities, most of which are in Microsoft Windows. Exploiting these vulnerabilities in many cases leads to remote code execution and full system access.

Both end-of-support and current Windows versions are impacted, including Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 7, 2008, 8, and 2012. It is unlikely that Microsoft will be releasing patches for any end-of-support versions of Windows."

per Qualys https://blog.qualys.com/securitylabs...-exploit-tools

This applies to other Windows products too, of course.

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It stresses the importance of using supplemental security tools with
anti-exploitation features capable of stopping (preventing) infection before it can cause any damage.

• Use an Anti-Exploit Program to Help Protect Your PC From Zero-Day Attacks

 

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• Use an Anti-Exploit Program to Help Protect Your PC From Zero-Day Attacks

Quote..."While you should use an antivirus (even just the Windows Defender tool built into Windows 10, 8.1, and 8) as well as an anti-exploit program, you shouldn’t use multiple anti-exploit programs."

Note: Some anti-virus and anti-malware programs include built-in exploit protection. For example,

Emsisoft Anti-Malware uses
advanced behavior blocking analysis which is extremely difficult to penetrate...it continually monitors the behavior of all active programs looking for any anomalies that may be indicative of malicious activity and raises
an alert as soon as something suspicious occurs. Emsisoft also has the ability to detect unknown

zero-day attacks without signatures.
ESET Antivirus and Smart Security uses
Exploit Blocker which is designed to fortify applications that are often exploited, such as web browsers, PDF readers, email clients or MS Office components.

 

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