The claims made by the group remain unverified at the time of writing, but since the Shadow Brokers' previously released data dump turned out to be legitimate, the group's statement should be taken seriously, at least now, when we know the EternalBlue exploit and DoublePulsar backdoor developed by the NSA and released by the Shadow Brokers last month was used by WannaCry to cause chaos worldwide.īefore publicly dumping these exploits in April, the Shadow Brokers put an auction of cyber weapons stolen from NSA's elite hacking team called Equation Group for 1 Million Bitcoin.Īfter failed auction, the hacking group even put up those hacking tools and exploits for direct sale on an underground site, categorizing them into a type - like "exploits," "Trojans," and "implant" - each of which ranged from 1 to 100 Bitcoins (from $780 to $78,000).Īfter failure from all sides, the group started leaking those hacking exploits. Stolen network information from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean nuclear missile programs.Compromised data from banks and Swift providers.Exploits for operating systems, including Windows 10.Exploits for web browsers, routers, and smartphones.So, anyone buying the membership of the " wine of month club" would be able to get exclusive access to the upcoming leaks, which the Shadow Brokers claims would include: Good because now all these upcoming alleged unpatched vulnerabilities will be patched after being disclosed and terrible because the group will sell new zero-day exploits and hacking tools to private members with paid monthly subscription, instead of telling them to Microsoft.Īpparently, other hackers, criminal gangs, state-sponsored hackers, maybe some journalists and people from tech companies, would naturally join Shadow Brokers' membership. To some extent, this is good news, but it is terrible news too.
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