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Newly Found Malware Uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools, Where WannaCry Uses 2

A security researcher has identified a new strain of malware that also spreads itself by exploiting flaws in Windows SMB file sharing protocol. Unlike the WannaCry Ransomware that uses only two leaked NSA hacking tools, it exploits all the seven. Miroslav Stampar, a security researcher who created famous’sqlmap’ tool and now a member of the Croatian Government CERT, has discovered a new network worm, dubbed EternalRocks, which is more dangerous than Wanna Cry and has no kill-switch in it.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/smb-windows-hacking-tools.html

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