According to experts, at the moment it is "just" spreading but one cannot know when they'll activate it to do something bad.
Article at CNET here.
The recently discovered EternalRocks joins a set of highly infectious bugs created from the NSA's leaked tools.
If the NSA's leaked hacking tools had a Voltron, it would be EternalRocks.
On Sunday, researchers confirmed new malware, named EternalRocks, that uses seven exploits first discovered by the National Security Agency and leaked in April by the Shadow Brokers group. Experts described the malware as a "doomsday" worm that could strike suddenly.
EternalRocks uses EternalBlue, DoublePulsar, EternalChampion, EternalRomance, EternalSynergy, ArchiTouch and SMBTouch -- all tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers. Stampar said he found the packed hack after it infected his honeypot, a trap set to monitor incoming malware.
Article at CNET here.