NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers just dumped its most damaging release yet

Enlarge / A computer screen displaying Eternalromance, one of the hacking tools dumped Friday by Shadow Brokers. (credit: Matthew Hickey) Important Update 4/15/2017 11:45 AM California time None of the exploits reported below are, in fact, zerodays that work against supported Microsoft products. Readers should read this update for further details. What follows is the […]

Mysterious Microsoft patch killed 0days released by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers

Enlarge (credit: NSA) Contrary to what Ars and the rest of the world reported Friday, none of the published exploits stolen from the National Security Agency work against currently supported Microsoft products. This is according to a Microsoft blog post published late Friday night. That’s because the critical vulnerabilities for four exploits previously believed to […]