Athena Spyware and EternalRocks

Wikileaks last week released documents detailing an application created by the CIA used to covertly monitor and control virtually any  current version of Windows.
Basically the application named Athena is spyware which  gives full rights over the PC to the control.
There is even a full user guide.HERE.

And there is also news of a rival to Wannacry called EternalRocks which has the potential to be even more destructive.  Eternal rocks makes use of seven of the NSA exploits leaked.  Wannacry used two of the exploits.  At present there is no reported activity related to this malware but it is very covert and includes serveral techniques to avoid detection.

So the question is, who are the bad guys?  The ones who leak the information or the ones who know about it but decide not to tell anyone?

We know in reality that the bad guys are already two steps ahead of the authorities when it comes to CyberSecurity so would it not be in everyones interest if the Authorities actually made a true contrubution to the security community and used their research to plug the holes and not secretly exploit them.


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