Scan Your Windows PC for NSA Vulnerabilities with This Freeware Tool

The WannaCry ransomware that affected thousands of computers across the world was based on a vulnerability stolen from the NSA from hacking group Shadow Brokers, who decided to publish it online earlier this year.

Furthermore, the same hacking group also revealed some other vulnerabilities that the NSA was holding and believed to be using for breaking into computers across the world, and there’s a good chance the agency owns more security flaws that haven’t yet been made public.

This is why security company Qihu developed the so-called 360 NSA Cyber Weapons Defense tool, an application whose purpose is to scan your computer and determine whether it’s vulnerable to any of the known vulnerabilities that were previously used by the NSA.

Scanning for NSA vulnerabilities

This involves the EternalBlue exploit, which was used for WannaCry, but also a bunch of other tools used in cyber attacks across the world, like EternalChampion, EternalRomance, and E...