"ShadowBrokers" Hacking Group Launches Subscription Service Selling
Nuclear Secrets

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
EquationGroup is the National Security Agency (NSA) and that the Shadow
Brokers may be part of a psychological operations campaign run by
Russian intelligence.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-17/its-much-bigger-wannacry-security-expe
rts-warn-new-stealthy-cyber-attack-using-nsa-t

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Shadow Brokers first emerged last August, offering to auction hacking
exploits it said were used by the NSA's elite hacking team known as
EquationGroup (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.
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It said is has always been about “Shadowbrokers vs EquationGroup,” and
implied the NSA is a cohort of tech companies like Microsoft.

And now, as RT reports, the group's monthly data dump could also include
hacking exploits for web browsers, routers, and operating systems
including Windows 10.

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"TheShadowBrokers Data Dump of the Month" is a new monthly subscription
model, the group said.

Payment will likely be made in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin given the
group's ransom demands in previous cyber attacks.

The group also promised to include compromised financial data from the
SWIFT international payment order system, used by banks to transfer
trillions of dollars each day, as well as confidential data from several
central banks.

https://www.rt.com/viral/388717-shadow-brokers-monthly-subscription/
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In a blog post published Tuesday, titled, ‘Oh Lordy! Comey Wanna Cry
Edition' the group accused the NSA of paying Microsoft to keep
vulnerabilities in its software (and did not hold back in its
accusations)

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If Shadowbrokers is telling the peoples the EquationGroup is paying U.S
technology companies NOT TO PATCH vulnerabilities until public
discovery, is this being Fake News or Conspiracy Theory?

Why Microsoft patching SMB vulnerabilities in secret? Microsoft is being
embarrassed because EquationGroup is lying to Microsoft. EquationGroup
is not telling Microsoft about SMB vulnerabilities, so Microsoft not
preparing with quick fix patch. More important EquationGroup not paying
Microsoft for holding vulnerability. Microsoft is thinking it knowing
all the vulnerabilities EquationGroup is using and paying for holding
patch.

Douche bag, dumbass, libtard, rich prick Head Microsoft Lawyer is
running his #### holster because he is having ruff weekend doing real
work. Head Microsoft Lawyer being angry because he is missing leisurely
weekend playing the skin flute behind the country club.

Real work is not being for executives. Real work is being for dirty
foreign H1B workforce, happily working for less than stupid lazy
American workers.

https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/oh-lordy-comey-wanna-cry-ed
ition
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ShadowBrokers finished its post saying if a responsible party were to
buy “all lost data before it is being sold to the peoples” then the
group would have no more financial incentives and would “go dark
permanently.”


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