Motherboard:
Thanks to the Shadow Brokers, any hacker can now easily attack and pwn millions of Windows computers on the internet.
On Friday, the group known as The Shadow Brokers dropped the hacking equivalent of a bomb, or perhaps several bombs, giving hackers all over the world the tools to easily break into millions of Windows computers.
“This is internet god mode for Microsoft computers,” a security researcher that goes by the handle Hacker Fantastic, told Motherboard in an online chat.
After weeks of silence, The Shadow Brokers came back last Saturday to drop a long-awaited set of files that turned out to be just underwhelming, old Linux hacking tools. But today, the group released what’s probably its most explosive—and damaging—dump yet: a collection of several alleged NSA hacking tools for Microsoft Windows systems, likely including multiple unknown exploits, or zero-days.
This is bad news not just for the NSA, but for the internet as a whole, according to security researchers who are poring through the dump. As someone called it, this is “cyber chaos.”
Perhaps the worst tool released by the hackers is called “FUZZBUNCH.” This is a hacking suite or toolkit that contains several plug-and-play exploits to attack several versions of Windows operating system. Some researchers described it as something akin to Metasploit, a popular open source hacking framework.
“This FUZZBUNCH framework contains the closest thing to a cyber weapon since Stuxnet,” Hacker Fantastic said. “It is packed full of exploits. It’s Metasploit but with zero-days.”
In fact, the latest Shadow Brokers dump contains several working Windows zero-days in executable (.exe) binaries with “step-by-step logs laying out how they’re used and the commands to run,” according to Ashkan Soltani, an independent security researcher.
That means that pretty much anyone, from low-level cybercriminals to so-called “script kiddies”—hackers who are only good at reusing other hackers’ tools—could repurpose them to attack Windows computers.
“I think if you were motivated, you yourself could run some of these,” joked Soltani, who previously worked at the FTC as their chief technology officer.
In other words, right now, millions of computers could be in danger. And they will be hackable until Microsoft releases patches, which could perhaps take weeks or months.
“It’s not safe to run an internet facing Windows box right now,” said a hacker who used to work in the US Department of Defense.
I will never understand the joy some idiot gets by hacking into some unsuspecting citizen’s computer and causing untold problems.
The NDAA way back in 2012 ended mine and your civil rights, ya just for terrorists, I have some beachfront land in Kansas for sale. The Patriot Act was the least patriotic act ever passed, but it strengthened the deep state. I find it curious that they are so good hacking into private and corporate systems but cant secure their own, this again was a leak, not a hack. Thats why they call it wikiLEAKS. Assange has never released false information, the insiders too frightened to become whistle blowers give him this stuff.
If you think hackers did not already have these tools and you are in a panic, faggetabodit. Its how the tools of hacking are used to worry about.
The hard part is to become unhived and take back the freedoms they stole. Are you ready to be self reliant? Liberals on the tit of the government always crying for “free” stuff are horrified by the thought of a smaller government.
This is the direct result of the progressives idea of a living breathing constitution, gee it seemed a good idea at the time idiocy.
The Microsoft patches will be released when approved of by the deep state.