“ShadowBrokers” Hacking Group Launches Subscription Service Selling Nuclear Secrets
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
May 19, 2017
The hacking group known as ‘The Shadow Brokers’ is pushing a monthly subscription service offering members top secret information including “compromised network data” from the nuclear and ballistic missile programs of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
As a reminder, we have noted in the past, many security experts believe the Equation Group is the National Security Agency, and that the Shadow Brokers may be part of a psychological operations campaign run by Russian intelligence.
Shadow Brokers first emerged last August, offering to auction hacking exploits it said were used by the NSA’s elite hacking team known as Equation Group (officially named Tailored Access Operations). NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and others confirmed the leak was authentic.
In December, Shadow Brokers cancelled its auction and offered to sell the exploits.
In April, the group released passwords to the rest of the hacking exploits in a move described as a protest against President Donald Trump for abandoning his base.
The release included a Windows SMB [Server Message Block] exploit, EternalBlue, which was leveraged in the recent WannaCry global ransomware attack.
In its Tuesday blog post, the group expressed its surprise that governments or tech companies didn’t bid in its past auctions.
It said is has always been about “the shadowbrokers vs theequation group,” and implied the NSA is a cohort of tech companies like Microsoft.
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