Hacker Group Leaks 'NSA's Top Secret Arsenal of Digital Weapons' (vice.com)

Hacker group 'The Shadow Brokers', which last year allegedly released top-secret tools that the National Security Agency had used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets, today said it is disappointed with President Donald Trump, and released more such alleged tools. From a report on Motherboard: On Saturday, The Shadow Brokers, a hacker or group of hackers that has previously dumped NSA hacking tools, released more alleged exploits. The group published a password for an encrypted cache of files they distributed last year. "Be considering this our form of protest," the group wrote in a rambling, politically loaded rant published on Medium. Back in August, The Shadow Brokers released a number of exploits stolen from the NSA. Many of these affected hardware firewalls, from companies such as Cisco and Juniper. At the time, the group also dumped another cache allegedly containing more hacking tools, and said they would release the corresponding password to the winner of a bitcoin auction. That fund-raising effort was ultimately unsuccessful, and The Shadow Brokers claimed they were calling the whole thing off in January. But now, anyone can unlock the auction data dump. (Motherboard confirmed that the password did indeed decrypt the original auction file). In a series of tweets, Edward Snowden said, "NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons; hackers leaked it. 1) https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP 2) For those who have never heard of the hacker group behind today's leak of NSA's cyberweapons, last year's story."

He adds, "quick review of the ShadowBrokers leak of Top Secret NSA tools reveals it's nowhere near the full library, but there's still so much here that NSA should be able to instantly identify where this set came from and how they lost it. If they can't, it's a scandal."

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Re:Why is nobody leaking...

[AHuxley]

Russia does not have any need for "code". They have generations of well placed spies and people who want to help globally.
They don't have to trust consumer grade networks and junk encryption on standard digital devices. The Soviet Union understood codes fail, like in the 1950's.
So the Soviet Union and Russia got smart and moved to more secure methods and went for the human side of spying.
The NSA, CIA and GCHQ just kept on putting more funding into computers and digital collection methods, always just expecting the world to always be more digital.
Everyone has a home computer, every one has a smart phone, every hotel has a smart TV, every company keeps their secrets near the internet. The US and UK also have a culture of contractors and people from the outside helping/giving "orders" to gov/mil staff.
Wage difference, lack of dignity, lack of advancement, no esprit de corp in the West over generations adds to issues only found in the West.
The GCHQ finally fully understood why information leaks, staff walk out and had the methods to keep staff happy in the West by the 1970's.
But the US private sector would have be shut out of gov and mil contracts. So the GCHQ ideas about a better gov workplace got replaced by every more lobbying for more US contractors and private sector support.
In Russia its your rank, your profession, your uniform, your medals, your advancement, your mil, your nation to defend, your honour, a privilege with good educational support.
In the West its a day job, the boss with party political connections, their private sector profit and shareholders, lobbyists and job insecurity. Government workers who dream of private sector wealth, private sector workers who dream of some full time employment.
Moving around the US or UK as a contractor to support the mil/gov with its data collection, computer issues is not a fun profession.