For the only known double pulsar star system, see PSR J0737-3039.
DoublePulsar
Technical name
Double Variant
Trojan:Win32/DoublePulsar (Microsoft)
Backdoor.DoublePulsar (Fortiguard)
Dark Variant
Trojan.Darkpulsar (Symantec)[1]
Win32/Equation.DarkPulsar (ESET)[2]
Family
Pulsar (backdoor family)
Authors
Equation Group
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DoublePulsar is a backdoor implant tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) Equation Group that was leaked by The Shadow Brokers in early 2017.[3][citation needed] The tool infected more than 200,000 Microsoft Windows computers in only a few weeks,[4][5][3][6][7] and was used alongside EternalBlue in the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack.[8][9][10] A variant of DoublePulsar was first seen in the wild in March 2016, as discovered by Symantec.[11]
Sean Dillon, senior analyst of security company RiskSense Inc., first dissected and inspected DoublePulsar.[12][13] He said that the NSA exploits are "10 times worse" than the Heartbleed security bug, and use DoublePulsar as the primary payload. DoublePulsar runs in kernel mode, which grants cybercriminals a high level of control over the computer system.[5] Once installed, it uses three commands: ping, kill, and exec, the latter of which can be used to load malware onto the system.[12]
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original on 3 October 2019. "Win32/Equation.DarkPulsar.A | ESET Virusradar". www.virusradar.com. "DoublePulsar malware spreading rapidly in the wild following...
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vulnerable systems, then uses the EternalBlue exploit to gain access, and the DoublePulsar tool to install and execute a copy of itself. WannaCry versions 0, 1...
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R; d'Amico, N; Joshi, B. C; Reynolds, J; Freire, P. C. C (2004). "A Double-Pulsar System: A Rare Laboratory for Relativistic Gravity and Plasma Physics"...
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detecting that the software used a driver with behavior similar to the DoublePulsar exploit. In March 2019, the Oversight Board of United Kingdom government...
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discovery of the double-pulsar system as well as in the discovery of several new pulsars. McLaughlin dedicates her time to the Pulsar Search Collaboratory...
rather well established for the solar system and doublepulsars. However, in GR the metric plays a double role: Measuring distances in spacetime and serving...
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