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DoublePulsar

Post by Royal » Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:18 am

Cool name. Put me on the board for naming!


After Microsoft officials dismissed evidence that more than 10,000 Windows machines on the Internet were infected by a highly advanced National Security Agency backdoor, private researchers are stepping in to fill the void. The latest example of this open source self-help came on Tuesday with the release of a tool that can remotely uninstall the DoublePulsar implant.

On late Friday afternoon, Microsoft officials issued a one-sentence statement saying that they doubted the accuracy of multiple Internet-wide scans that found anywhere from 30,000 to slightly more than 100,000 infected machines. The statement didn't provide any factual basis for the doubt, and officials have yet to respond on the record to requests on Tuesday for an update. Over the weekend, Below0day released the results of a scan that detected 56,586 infected Windows boxes, an 85-percent jump in the 30,626 infections the security firm found three days earlier.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/0 ... y-removed/


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Post by Royal » Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:02 am

Hackers have compromised thousands of computers around the world with a government-grade spy tool.

A backdoor published in a trove of leaked NSA hacking tools is being loaded onto vulnerable Windows computers. The attacks demonstrate what happens when people fail to regularly update their machines.

The hacks were leaked almost two weeks ago by the anonymous Shadow Brokers group and contain a backdoor called DOUBLEPULSAR. It can be remotely installed on Windows machines that have not been patched since March. This allows hackers to take over the computers and execute tasks as if they were the computer's administrator.

As of Monday, there are over 144,000 machines infected with this backdoor, according to research from Dan Tentler, founder and CEO of The Phobos Group security firm. Tentler built a tool to scan the internet for Windows machines vulnerable to the backdoor, and says the number is steadily climbing. He estimates between 200,000 and 300,000 could be infected by the end of the week.

"We are dealing with a digital epidemic," Tentler told CNNTech.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/25/technol ... king-tool/


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Re: DoublePulsar

Post by Pigeon » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:32 pm

Given humans, bound to happen.

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