{"id":46426,"date":"2019-05-27T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46426"},"modified":"2019-05-27T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T00:07:53","slug":"the-most-destructive-breach-in-history-hackers-use-nsa-code-to-grind-baltimore-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46426","title":{"rendered":"“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons \u2013 that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here <\/a>, it has now been revealed that a key component of the malware used by cyber-criminals was actually developed just a short drive from Baltimore – at the NSA<\/strong><\/em>, according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tool used – called EternalBlue \u2013 has been used by hackers in North Korea, Russia and China to “cut a path of destruction around the world”, and resulted in billions of dollars in damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it has come full circle and is back in the US, wreaking havoc just miles from Washington. In fact, security experts say that attacks using EternalBlue have soared and cyber-criminals are honing in on vulnerable towns and cities, using it to paralyze governments<\/strong>. The NSA’s connection to the attacks had previously not been reported and the NSA hasn\u2019t commented about it since an unidentified group leaked the weapon online in April 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NSA and the FBI still don\u2019t know whether or not it was leaked by foreign spies or US insiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leak has been referred to as \u201cthe most destructive and costly N.S.A. breach in history,\u201d by Thomas Rid, a cybersecurity expert at Johns Hopkins University. He continued: \u201cThe government has refused to take responsibility, or even to answer the most basic questions. Congressional oversight appears to be failing. The American people deserve an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An answer that we’re sure they won’t <\/em>get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons \u2013 that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here , it has now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2148,551,827],"class_list":["post-46426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-hacking","tag-national-security-agency","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46427,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46426\/revisions\/46427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}