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In this case we're talking about the recent NSA exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers and then utilized by WannaCry and the Petya attack. Both of those had a "weapo
by wybiral 9y ago
In this case we're talking about the recent NSA exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers and then utilized by WannaCry and the Petya attack. Both of those had a "weapon" (the ransomware itself) that spread by way of an exploit found by NSA (a defect in Windows that people failed to patch).
In this case, I feel that blaming NSA for the exploit and calling those "cyberweapons" is wrong. The entity who put the ransomware on top of them and deployed them built a weapon.