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NSA : des hackers chinois ont exploité l’un de ses outils d’espionnage un an avant les Shadow Brokers
▻https://cyberguerre.numerama.com/1323-nsa-des-hackers-chinois-ont-exploite-lun-de-ses-outils-de

Un groupe de hackers chinois répondant au nom de Buckeye aurait exploité l’un des logiciels malveillants de la National Security Agency (NSA) un an avant l’affaire des Shadow Brokers. Bien que l’outil d’exécution utilisé soit différent de celui des Américains. La réputation de la National Security Agency (NSA), célèbre agence de renseignements américaine, prend un nouveau coup. Fin 2017, le groupe de hackers Shadow Brokers levait le voile sur plusieurs outils d’espionnage appartenant à l’Equation Group, (...)

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Why the NSA Makes Us More Vulnerable to Cyberattacks | Foreign Affairs
▻https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-05-30/why-nsa-makes-us-more-vulnerable-cyberattacks
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There is plenty of blame to go around for the WannaCry ransomware that spread throughout the Internet earlier this month, disrupting work at hospitals, factories, businesses, and universities. First, there are the writers of the malicious software, which blocks victims’ access to their computers until they pay a fee. Then there are the users who didn’t install the Windows security patch that would have prevented an attack. A small portion of the blame falls on Microsoft, which wrote the insecure code in the first place. One could certainly condemn the Shadow Brokers, a group of hackers with links to Russia who stole and published the National Security Agency attack tools that included the exploit code used in the ransomware. But before all of this, there was the NSA, which found the vulnerability years ago and decided to exploit it rather than disclose it.