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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 21 2017, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the ahhh-crap dept.

Researchers have detected a new worm that is spreading via SMB, but unlike the worm component of the WannaCry ransomware, this one is using seven NSA tools instead of two.

The worm's existence first came to light on Wednesday, after it infected the SMB honeypot of Miroslav Stampar, member of the Croatian Government CERT, and creator of the sqlmap tool used for detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws.

The worm, which Stampar named EternalRocks based on worm executable properties found in one sample, works by using six SMB-centric NSA tools to infect a computer with SMB ports exposed online. These are ETERNALBLUE, ETERNALCHAMPION, ETERNALROMANCE, and ETERNALSYNERGY, which are SMB exploits used to compromise vulnerable computers, while SMBTOUCH and ARCHITOUCH are two NSA tools used for SMB reconnaissance operations.

Once the worm has obtained this initial foothold, it then uses another NSA tool, DOUBLEPULSAR, to propagate to new vulnerable machines.

Source: BleepingComputer


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @09:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @09:39AM (#513411)

    Well, if theft is permanent and non-optional then you could argue it is a slavery. However, if you can opt out, like in "renounce citizenship" then you are not a slave, but then again, it is a choice between being domesticated or being a game, or even more precisely, being a domesticated in household A vs. being a domesticated in household B.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @11:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @11:02AM (#513441)

    if theft is permanent and non-optional then you could argue it is a slavery

    Slavery doesn't describe a lived experience, it describes a legal situation. One _cannot_ tell from direct experience whether a situation constitutes slavery because slavery doesn't describe an experience but a legal state.

    If a person was kidnapped, and forced to work on a farm for life, but it was illegal then that wouldn't be slavery. It would be physically indistinguishable from slavery, but slavery does not describe a _physical_ thing, but rather a legal situation.

    Slavery only exists within the concept of a legal system.

    Perhaps we ought to have a word for forced labour, and another for such extreme theft, but presently I'm not aware of any English words fitting the bill. Perhaps you should coin some, or go find some in another language, but you ought not redefine extant and well-defined words.