Security News > 2016 > January > Reverse-Engineering a Zero-Day Exploit from the Hacking Team Data Dump (Schneier on Security)
2016-01-19 20:34
Last July, a still-anonymous hacker broke into the network belonging to the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team, and dumped an enormous amount of its proprietary documents online. Kaspersky Labs was able to reverse-engineer one of its zero-day exploits from that data....
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