A bigger threat than WannaCry lurks in the shadows, and there's no easy cure

Doomsday predictions intrigue us, but we should be wary of taking them at face value. After all, the world hasn't ended yet, Y2K did not kill our computers, and the internet survived Kim Kardashian's nudes. 

Still, a single tweet by Miroslav Stampar, a cybersecurity expert working for the Croatian government, piqued my interest. It's a "matter of time" before bad guys start tying together several hacking techniques following the WannaCry ransomware attack, he wrote. 

And when they do, "we die." What did he mean by that?

Stampar was featured in several news articles in the past few days; he was the first to explain, in detail, a new threat called EternalRocks, which takes advantage of seven different exploits that have recently been stolen from the NSA's trove of security vulnerabilities (for comparison, WannaCry only uses two of the exploits).  Read more...