Researcher ports NSA exploits for old&new Windows versions
Several exploits and hacking tools were released in
the April 2017 Shadow Brokers dump, the most famous being EternalBlue, the exploit used in the WannaCry, NotPetya, and Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreaks.
While EternalBlue became
a favorite tool among malware authors, the Shadow Brokers dump also contained many lesser-known exploits. The reason many of these didn't become popular was that they only worked a small number of Windows versions, and did not support recent Windows distributions.
Now, RiskSense security researcher Sean Dillon (
@zerosum0x0) has modified the source code for some of these lesser-known exploits so they would be able to work and run SYSTEM-level code on a wide variety of Windows OS versions.
The researcher has recently merged these modified versions of EternalChampion, EternalRomance, and EternalSynergy into the Metasploit Framework, an open-source penetration testing project.