Security News > 2017 > October > Bad Rabbit Ransomware Uses Leaked 'EternalRomance' NSA Exploit to Spread
2017-10-27 03:57
A new widespread ransomware worm, known as "Bad Rabbit," that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine this week leverages a stolen NSA exploit released by the Shadow Brokers this April to spread across victims' networks. Earlier it was reported that this week's crypto-ransomware outbreak did not use any National Security Agency-developed exploits, neither EternalRomance
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