Chinese Hacking Group 'Cloned' NSA Exploit Tool
Get Permission A Chinese hacking group reportedly "cloned" and deployed a zero-day exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agency's Equation Group before Microsoft patched the Windows vulnerability that was being exploited in 2017, according to an analysis published Monday by Check Point Research. For several years, researchers had suspected the Chinese hacking group known as APT31 or Zirconium had developed an exploit tool to take advantage of a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-0005 and found in older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8, according to the report. Th...