EternalBlue, BlueKeep, and DirtyCOW
Around the end of 2023, I was tasked with writing a paper on any topic we’d covered in a course I was taking at the time. I chose to explore some of the most famous Windows exploits (the Eternal suite) & how EternalBlue* was used in the WannaCry ransomware attack, as well as BlueKeep and DirtyCOW.
The paper doesn’t necessarily present any new ideas, being more of a “literature review” than anything else – it was more for me & the course than for academia at large. Feel free to have a read if it interests you.
*I didn’t know it at the time, but I’d go on to write about the Shadow Brokers (who leaked EternalBlue) again.
Post published 06/29/2025, dated 12/07/2023 for chronology purposes.