Security News > 2017 > May > Weeks Before WannaCry, Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet Was Using Windows SMB Exploit (The Hackers News)
2017-05-16 10:41
A security researcher has just discovered a stealthy cryptocurrency-mining malware that was also using Windows SMB vulnerability at least two weeks before the outbreak of WannaCry ransomware attacks. According to Kafeine, a security researcher at Proofpoint, another group of cyber criminals was using the same EternalBlue exploit, created by the NSA and dumped last month by the Shadow Brokers,
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