The hacking group Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that attacked almost all versions of windows released during the last 20 years including the desktop OS, Server, and other platforms.
Some of the exploits allegedly used by the NSA relied on vulnerabilities in older and not-supported SKUs (stock-selling units) of Windows Server, according to Matt Suiche, founder of the security firm Comaeio, who named Windows 2003 specifically. Three of the NSA exploits, which Microsoft indexes as MS17-010, CVE-2017-0146, and CVE-2017-0147, have not been patched but do not work on programs that Microsoft now supports, according to Ars Technica. It included its usual references to working with external security researchers to identify flaws in the Windows ecosystem, without elaborating on the assistance it received in releasing updates for the Shadow Brokers bugs. "Customers with up-to-date software are already protected", the company was quoted as saying.
Belgium-based SWIFT said there was no evidence the main SWIFT network had been accessed without authorisation, but said it was possible the local messaging systems of some SWIFT client organisations may have been breached.
The Shadow Brokers' leaks indicate that the NSA infiltrated a Dubai company that helps manage transactions in the worldwide bank messaging system Swift.
The release is the latest in a series by Shadow Brokers, and marks the first time the group has published something other than hacking tools.
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"Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers", the company explains. While Windows computers that run up to date versions of Windows aren't at risk for these exploits, there are a lot of machines that are still running Windows XP and are no longer supported by Microsoft, and these machines are vulnerable.
Microsoft acknowledged the problem and said that the vulnerabilities have already been taken care of and patched. That update was supposed to roll out in February but didn't hit the scene until March, when it patched some of the NSA exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers.
The three remaining exploits-EnglishmanDentist, EsteemAudit, and ExplodingCan-cannot be reproduced on supported Microsoft platforms, Misner wrote. Without any explanation from Microsoft, the incident has forced reconsideration of how this kind of exploit is handled.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company had not been contacted by any "individual or organization" prior to Friday's release regarding the software vulnerabilities that were exploited by the leaked hacking tools. The US intelligence agency then used lines of code to query the SWIFT servers and Oracle databases handling the SWIFT transactions, according to the documents.
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