EternalBlue is Back, with New Tricks
Infosecurity Magazine | November 03, 2017
An email-server message block (SMB) blended threat has been uncovered, which uses the compromised machine as a stepping stone to propagate laterally via the EternalBlue exploit. Netskope Threat Research Labs said that the inclusion of the EternalBlue exploit is insidious because it will be launched internally from the newly infected machine, permitting direct access to shared SMB machines such as file shares and backup systems.