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UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler

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The client and server communicate over the SMB Protocol. The NSA did not alert Microsoft about EternalBlue’s existence for a period of five years, until a breach of the NSA compelled the agency to do so. By using specific search queries, an attacker can identify systems that are potentially susceptible to EternalBlue.

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