NSA’s chest of Windows exploits leaked, affects Windows 2000 to 8 and more

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Published onApril 15, 2017

published onApril 15, 2017

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Shadow Brokers, a hacking group, has released a treasure trove of zero-day exploits used by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). Amongst these exploits, which include a potential breach of the Swift banking system, is exploits for many of Microsoft’s previous operating systems, both consumer and server editions.

The operating systems affected include:

Additionally and more importantly to businesses, the following Windows server editions are affected:

So far, Windows 10 has not been discovered as having any zero-day exploits in this latest leak, however, that’s not to say the NSA doesn’t have other caches of tools.

TheBBCquestioned Microsoft over the exploits discovered in this leak and gave the following statement, saying that they are “reviewing the report and will take the necessary actions to protect our customers”.

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