WannaCry paralyzed hospitals. NotPeya crashed banks. But how to know if you’re vulnerable to the stolen National Security Agency exploit that fueled two major cyber attacks and helped bring down computers across the globe?
Thankfully, a new tool has your back.
After the Shadow Brokers hacking group dumped a cache of stolen NSA exploits in April, the cybersecurity community issued dire warnings that things were about to get really, really bad. But then Microsoft quickly chimed in to note that it had already patched the vulnerabilities in question.
“We’ve investigated and confirmed that the exploits disclosed by the Shadow Brokers have already been addressed by previous updates to our supported products,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Mashable at the time. “Customers with up-to-date software are already protected.”
And yet.
One of the hoarded NSA vulnerabilities, dubbed EternalBlue, allows for the worm-like spread of malware across computer systems. And despite Microsoft’s assurances, it turns out that many people and organizations did not in fact update their computers with the available patch. WannaCry and NotPetya, which made use of…
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