What ' s rather curious is that a Redmond spokesperson claimed earlier on Friday: " Other than reporters, no individual or organization has contacted us in relation to the materials released by Shadow Brokers."
In other words, apparently no one privately tipped off Microsoft about the exploited security bugs so that they could be fixed – not the brokers and not the NSA. And yet it now turns out Microsoft quietly patched a bunch of the SMB vulnerabilities exploited by the US spy agency in March this year. And then the Shadow Brokers went public with the SMB exploits exactly a month later. What fortuitous timing for Redmond!
Today, the software giant ' s principal security group manager Phillip Misner said: " Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers... Customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and most of the exploits are already patched."
How odd, but also: what a relief. If you want to check which exploits affect which operating systems, someone ' s made a handy table here.