EternalBlue was the tool which was used to carry out WannaCry and NotPetya attacks in 2017 as well as the data breach in Baltimore.
After the cyber attackers targeted Baltimore’s internet servers on Tuesday, May 7 and forced the government to shut down most of their computer servers, new reports claimed that the tool, used for the ransomware attack on the city is a National Security Agency (NSA) creation called EternalBlue.
As per previous reports, since 2017, NSA lost control over EternalBlue, which was picked by the hackers from North Korea, Russia as well as China and was used in other high-profile cyber attacks.
Security experts claimed that this tool exploits a vulnerability in certain versions of Microsoft’s Windows XP and Vista systems by allowing a third party to execute commands on the target.
