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ESTEEMAUDIT

A Dissection of the “EsteemAudit” Windows Remote Desktop Exploit

In April, a group known as the “Shadow Brokers” released a cache of stolen information that included multiple tools to exploit vulnerabilities in various versions of Microsoft Windows. The most famous of these is an exploit tool called “EternalBlue” which was repurposed to spread the WanaCrypt0r ransomware/worm earlier this month. Another tool released in this […]

Security Firm Releases Windows XP Patch for NSA Exploit ESTEEMAUDIT

Cyber-security firm enSilo has released a patch for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that will protect against attacks via ESTEEMAUDIT, a hacking tool dumped online by the Shadow Brokers last month, and allegedly developed by the NSA. At the technical level, ESTEEMAUDIT is a zero-day in the RDP protocol used by Windows to open […]