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The 'WannaCry' ransomware is a stark reminder of a broken system
In April, a hacking group called The Shadow Brokers dumped a cache of Windows' exploits it pilfered from the NSA. The group had decided to start leaking exploits it stole from the agency after it was unable to find a buyer for the government's hacking tools. Inside that April drop was a remote code execution vulnerability called "EternalBlue" (aka MS17-010). Fortunately, Microsoft issued a security patch that fixed EternalBlue in March. What's not so fortunate is that not everyone had applied it to their machines.
