Excerpt
Introduction
6:22 AM 11/7/2012 conficker still on target
6:18 AM 11/7/2012 checking logs - we are clean
8:16 PM 7/2/2012 - BOOM!, got the callback
Those were some of the words that the Equation Group (NSA) operators left in the records documenting their attacks against target systems, and which were later leaked by the Shadow Brokers. The plethora of information exposed in the fifth and last leak by the Shadow Brokers, called “Lost in Translation”, and the following consequences that took shape in WannaCry and NotPetya among other things, makes this a changing point in the game of cyber security as we know it.
Recently, security researcher Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade revealed a previous…
The opening of the report, shown for reference. The full report, with its figures and indicators, is published by Check Point on research.checkpoint.com.
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