"It is very significant as it effectively puts cyber weapons in the hands of anyone who downloads it. A number of these attacks appear to be 0-day exploits whic

"It is very significant as it effectively puts cyber weapons in the hands of anyone who downloads it. A number of these attacks appear to be 0-day exploits which have no patch and work completely from a remote network perspective." MS Windows on a network was never really secure. These hacked will makes old Windows based machines toxic. Pretty sure not all, if any of the historic releases will be patched. Read this post, "Microsoft: most ShadowBrokers exploits are already patched" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119656 "Researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab, meanwhile, have confirmed the leaked code they analysed bears unique signatures tied to Equation Group" Here is a Kaspersky Q&A (pdf) on the Equation Group ~ https://securelist.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_questions_and_answers.pdf https://securelist.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_question...