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What is the craziest cybersecurity hack you’ve ever heard of? How did they manage to bypass security systems? (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

EternalBlue has to be up there. Triggering 3 bugs in SMB to allow an arbitrary code execution on an unmatched system.

I hope the NSA person responsible for chaining those got a good bonus, but like any government employee I doubt they did.