PyRoMine Uses NSA Exploit for Monero Mining and Backdoors The ShadowBrokers’ release of a trove of National Security Agency exploits last year appears to be the gift that keeps on giving, to the hacker community at least: A fresh malware that uses the EternalRomance tool has hit the scene, with Monero-mining as the stated goal. However, more damaging follow-on attacks are likely the endgame.… Read More
Leaked NSA Tool ‘Territorial Dispute’ Reveals the Agency’s List of Enemy Hackers Over the last year, Hungarian security researcher Boldizsár Bencsáth has remained fixated by one of the less-examined tools revealed in that disemboweling of America’s elite hacking agency: A piece of NSA software, called ‘Territorial Dispute,’ appears to have been designed to detect the malware of other nation-state hacker groups on a target computer that the… Read More
Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers When the mysterious entity known as the “Shadow Brokers” released a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools to the internet a year ago, most experts who studied the material homed in on the most potent tools, so-called zero-day exploits that could be used to install malware and take over machines. But a group of Hungarian… Read More