More Shadow Brokers fallout: DoublePulsar zero-day infects scores of Windows PCs

More Shadow Brokers fallout: DoublePulsar zero-day infects scores of Windows PCs

Ten days ago, the group known as Shadow Brokers released a pile of exploits, apparently developed by the NSA. After an initial period of dire predictions that the Windows sky was falling, Microsoft reassured us that most of the exploits were covered by the MS17-010 patch released back in March.

Yesterday, a report released by malware sleuths Below0day says that more than 5 million machines are exposed, of which 56,000 are infected by the DoublePulsar malware, although Dan Goodin at Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is skeptical of the numbers.

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