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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.
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.