Chinese hackers used NSA exploit years before Shadow Brokers leak

Chinese hackers used NSA exploit years before Shadow Brokers leak Chinese hackers used NSA exploit years before Shadow Brokers leak By 0 Chinese state hackers cloned and started using an NSA zero-day exploit almost three years before the Shadow Brokers hacker group publicly leaked it in April 2017. EpMe is the original exploit created by Equation Group around 2013 for a Windows zero-day bug tracked as CVE-2017-2005. The vulnerability was used for escalating Windows user privileges after gaining access to targeted devices since it’s a local privilege escalation (LPE) bug affecting devices running Windows XP up to Windows 8. Microsoft…