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Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-05-26

Date Updated: 2026-05-26

Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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The article revisits the Shadow Brokers incident, where an anonymous group published a trove of alleged NSA hacking tools in 2016 — notably EternalBlue — and outlines how those leaked zero-day exploits were later weaponized in global attacks such as WannaCry and NotPetya, causing widespread damage and underscoring the risk of intelligence-held vulnerabilities leaking to criminal or state actors.

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