In less than three years after the National Security Agency found itself subject to an unprecedentedly catastrophic hacking episode, one of the agency’s most powerful cyber weapons is reportedly being turned against American cities with alarming frequency by the very foreign hackers it was once intended to counter.
An explosive New York Times story published Saturday detailing how the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations lost control of its so-called ‘EternalBlue’ malware tool to a cadre of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers, which subsequently publicized the agency’s software exploits on the internet and passed them along to hackers associated with Russia, China, and North Korea
The Shadow Brokers’ disclosure reportedly came thanks to a 54-year-old former contractor Harold Martin III, who plead guilty in March 2019 for, among other things, taking classified documents and electronic devices home with him for more than 20 years in what government officials characterized as the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
Source: https://taskandpurpose.com/nsa-cyber-weapon-american-cities
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