A crowdfunding effort to buy a subscription to the ShadowBrokers’ Monthly Dump Service of stolen exploits and data was shut down citing legal and ethical concerns.

The ShadowBrokers announced details on how to subscribe to its Monthly Dump Service, which is available for 100 Zcash.

Researchers urge Windows admins to apply MS17-010 before the next attack using the EternalBlue NSA exploit deploys a worse payload than WannaCry ransomware.

Experts have confirmed there are similarities between code used by the ransomware WannaCry and the Lazarus APT.

The latest rant from the ShadowBrokers ends with news of a subscription service starting in June that will leak exploits and stolen data to paying customers.

Exploits spreading WannaCry ransomware have surfaced after the discovery of a killswitch put a quick halt to the initial global outbreak.

Attackers behind today’s WannaCry ransomware outbreak in Europe are spreading the malware using the EternalBlue exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers.

Scans show tens of thousands of Windows servers infected with the DoublePulsar kernel exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers two weeks ago.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including last Friday’s ShadowBrokers dump – how Microsoft learned of the vulnerabilities, how they were patched by Oracle, along with Microsoft ditching passwords, and a new car dongle hack.

Oracle released a record 299 patches, including a fix for a Solaris vulnerability disclosed by the ShadowBrokers, and another for the recently disclosed Apache Struts 2 flaw.