New SMB protocol exploit effective against most windows operating systems
An EternalSynergy based exploit has now been developed which can compromise newer (unpatched) versions of Windows. The original ETERNALSYNERGY exploit released by The Shadow Brokers in April exploited an SMB protocol vulnerability, CVE-2017-0143, to allow attackers to inject code onto Windows machines but only worked on versions up to Windows 8.
A security researcher has now modified and upgraded ETERNALSYNERGY…
Link: Weekly Threat Report 21st July 2017
Source: NCSC Reports
