Windows ‘BlueKeep’ Attack That U.S. Government Warned About Is Happening Right Now

The NSA considers the BlueKeep exploit potentially “devastating” and a “wide-ranging impact”. In June 2019, they published an advisory urging Windows administrators to update their operating systems to prevent this growing threat. The exploit is being compared to the WannaCry attack, which as we know infected numerous systems worldwide. This ongoing BlueKeep attack seems to be smaller scale as a cryptocurrency miner payload is being used. However, the threat actors behind the attack can potentially drop more malicious payloads that can infect the estimated 700,000 Windows systems that still aren’t patched. Another interesting fact is that the BlueKeep exploit was recently released in Metasploit.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/11/03/windows-bluekeep-attack-that-us-government-warned-about-is-happening-right-now/