Posted on 05/26/2019 1:01:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: An NSA cyber weapon is reportedly being used against American cities by the very adversaries it was meant to target
In less than three years after the National Security Agency found itself subject to an unprecedentedly catastrophic hacking episode, one of the agency's most powerful cyber weapons is reportedly being turned against American cities with alarming frequency by the very foreign hackers it was once intended to counter.
An explosive New York Times story published Saturday detailing how the NSA's Tailored Access Operations lost control of its so-called 'EternalBlue' malware tool to a cadre of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers, which subsequently publicized the agency's software exploits on the internet and passed them along to hackers associated with Russia, China, and North Korea
The Shadow Brokers' disclosure reportedly came thanks to a 54-year-old former contractor Harold Martin III, who plead guilty in March 2019 for, among other things, taking classified documents and electronic devices home with him for more than 20 years in what government officials characterized as the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
The New York Times story comes in the midst of an ongoing cyberattack on the city government of Baltimore that has paralyzed critical infrastructure and halted daily important transactions from home sales to utility payments. But apparently, the NSA connection wasn't publicly known before Saturday — and the first four paragraphs of the Times story will absolutely make your blood boil:
For nearly three weeks, Baltimore has struggled with a cyberattack by digital extortionists that has frozen thousands of computers, shut down email and disrupted real estate sales, water bills, health alerts and many other services.
But here is what frustrated city employees and residents do not know: A key component of the malware that cybercriminals used in the attack...
(Excerpt) Read more at taskandpurpose.com ...
“What’re we gonna do man?
The computers are locked
up. I can’t WRITE!”
“Don’t look at me, I don’t do cursive, either.”
Baltimore collapsing?
Who would notice?
Baltimore has “...thousands of computers, shut down email and disrupted real estate sales, water bills, health alerts and many other services...”
Whoda thunk it?
It seems the only people our intelligence services are keeping close watch on are Trump associates.
NSA probably gave it to them intentionally.
NSA probably gave it to them intentionally.
Keep your systems updated. Baltimore failed to do that one. NSA built many keys, but you have to change the locks all the time.
I’m sure this will morph into a msm slimes attack on Adm. Rogers and the vast evidence of the deep state treason.
Wheres the old mayor?
bkmk
The primary reason for the report.
She’s still at home in bed. But no one can visit.
Her lawyer takes questions and then goes in alone
to see her. It’s like Joseph Smith translating
golden tablets while behind a curtain and looking
into a hat. Or Edith Wilson running the country
from Woodrow’s ‘instructions.’
Claims of the mayor being sighted in Aruba are
just fools believing their lying eyes.
How is this different from daily life in Baltimore?
Read Ghost fleet by August Cole and P.W. Singer it was pretty chilling while at the same very interesting book I rank it up there with William Forstchen’s series on EMP’s.
Probably what zapped the Charlotte-Mecklenburg System last year.
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