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Hackers Claim To Be Selling NSA Cyberweapons In Online Auction (dailydot.com)
Reader blottsie writes: A group of hackers identifying themselves as theShadow Brokers claims to have hacked the NSA's Equation Group, a team of American hackers that have been described as both "omnipotent" and "the most advanced" threat cyberspace has ever seen. On the Shadow Brokers' website, the group has shared a sample of data that some cybersecurity experts say lends credibility to the breach. The the hackers' asking price for what they claim is a cache of NSA-built cyberweapons. Motherboard's take on this is here.
Honeypot (if it's a real).
The NSA has had rootkits in it for years. It's funny how arrogant they think they are :)
I'll just slot the Flatline ROM and let him take on that ICE.
Whoever wins the auction releases every single bit of it to the public with no redaction whatsoever.
There should be a collective public bid available, I would pledge a couple of btc to the public bid if there was a credible one. I would consider it penance for the taxes I paid to create the originals.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
$0.05 has been deposited in your account.
We finally get to see some new wares from L0pht!
It doesn't matter if Equation Group is part of the NSA, or if these tools come from Equation Group, or whatever. Just so long as these are real hacking tools used by any state agency, from any country, this puts the final nail in the coffin. Not that most of us needed that final nail.
The coffin being, "oh just create an encryption/security back door so that legitimate law enforcement can access it. You don't support child molesters and terrorists do you?"
Everybody. Gets. Hacked.
Secrets. Don't. Stay. Secret.
Yeah, the people who owned/created this screwed up. The point is, everyone screws up, given enough time and enough people involved.
Good chance it's the Hacking Team software that has a built in backdoor which was sold to 3rd world dictators... except ya know the new and improved version with a different backdoor. Since they were exposed they haven't been able to peddle their wares anymore so they're getting desperate for a sale. Any hacker smart enough to want those programs is smart enough to stay the hell away from those programs. Dangle the worm and see who bites? You posted this on the wrong site mates if you want that action. This is a radioactive post. Anyone who falls for this is going to get into a world of shit. American hackers my ass. No US hacker would be retarded enough to attempt to hack the NSA. You would have to be autistic and retarded to think that would be a good idea. Even if the claim is real the only ones that would ever have a chance at hacking the NSA are other governments that specialize in espionage such as Great Britain, Germany, Russia, China, or Israel.
The the hackers' asking price for what they claim is a cache of NSA-built cyberweapons.
"The the"? And it appears to be a sentence fragment.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The events of this breach should become the new exhibit A for every time a backdoor for the US government is discussed in any software. After all if the NSA can't keep their special toys in house, how long do you think a valuable backdoor will remain under wraps?
The person intended to type FSB but didn't know how to spell it.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I find it interesting to see that the "free" release they provided indicates dated material. Compiled with 2.0 - 2.6.9 era systems. Additionally it appears that the exploits are rather old as well, as the HW profiles they're targeting are reasonably old. This may be on purpose on the part of the hackers. Here be a complete list of the free files if anyone is interested. http://pastebin.com/SYcwqGmS
a team of American hackers
I read that first as "team America hackers."
"Another Kaspersky Lab researcher noted on Twitter that there is “nothing” in the dumped files that links them to the Equation Group"
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If you were trying to scam people this is exactly how you would structure an "auction".
Lets look at the details:
1. The money you bid is kept by the seller, regardless of who wins.
2. Impossible to verify the product's authenticity before the sale.
3. There is no public notification that the winner received the goods.
4. The auctioneers can make their own bids.
5. There is no end date. The seller stops the auction at their discretion
Someone would have to be especially trusting or maybe desperate to bid on this. There are ways to set up trusted zero knowledge transfers, but these guys instead act like we should trust them just because they're anonymous.
I read the internet for the articles.
Didn't Snowden just post "It's time" and follow that with what looks like a decryption key?
The files in this leak were last updated in 2013, when Snowden left the country.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this is legit and it is more information Snowden took from the NSA.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
If anyone's curious, I've dropped the decrypted contents of the "free sample" up on GitHub: https://github.com/nneonneo/eq.... Hopefully this makes analyzing the collection a bit easier. The code's pretty old - 2010-2013 according to timestamps - but it does look like real exploit/implant code from a distance.
He should be FSB. They don't backstab as hard as USA spy agencies. Look what they did to America.
to let the cops on to you, if you're buying to do this sort of hacking. Don't buy, don't copy, don't run.
is so hilariously "foreign" and bad that it can't possibly fool anyone. It can only be coming from, oh I don't know, a bunch of Americans perhaps, trying their best to appear like foreign hackers, who of course must have broken English, because, you know, they're foreign. Bullshit and malware.
The the hackers' asking price for what they claim is a cache of NSA-built cyberweapons.
Oh, to be am editor at Slashdot and have no expectation that you'll actually read what you are posting or require it to make any sense.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
These guys are obviously fakes.
I played Mass Effect, and I know there is only one Shadow Broker.
And she's hot.
FUCK YEAH!
all the links are dead ends
...One Dollar!
The Shadow Brokers: Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group? https://www.riskbasedsecurity....
All I can say is tumblr's 404 pages are some of the most WTF things I have seen
True, this site is now at least 3:1 govt shrill to reader. Must be this is where the NSA/FBI sticks their new hires.
If they can hack the NSA's best, then the NSA needs them on staff before someone else hires them.