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Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

June 3, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Armor, Eternal Blue, gandcrab, Joe Stewart, microsoft windows, national security agency, PCRisk.com, Robbinhood ransomware, robinhkjn, The New York Times, Twitter, Valery

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:16:11 +0000

For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “Robbinhood.” Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by “Eternal Blue,” a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it.