In a now deleted Tumblr page offered the Shadow Brokers’ a taste of the software and they said they will release more NSA malware in exchange for a large amount of bitcoins.
In the blog post drawn up in bad English, point the hackers on the “Equation group, a group of cyber spies, according to experts associated with the NSA.
the code that have put the Shadow Brokers online seems according to cybersecurity experts really are. The malware focuses on routers include Cisco and Juniper. From documents whistleblower Edward Snowden gave to various media showed earlier that the NSA regular Internet traffic trying to drain by focusing on vulnerabilities in network infrastructure.
“It looks authentic,” said researcher Nicholas Weaver of the University of California at the Wall Street Journal .
Bitcoins
However, it is unclear whether the hacker group actually more NSA software holds . The Shadow Brokers questions here 1 million for bitcoin, converted about 500 million euros. It seems unlikely that this amount will be sent to the group without conclusive evidence that their offer is indeed genuine.
The blog post also set the Shadow Brokers themselves that it is a risk to transfer bitcoins. “You want to pay, you take risks, perhaps win, maybe not, no guarantees,” said the group in the muddled text.
Matt Suiche, founder of security startup Comae, writes Medium that it is unlikely that the NSA has been hacked. Possibly something has gone wrong in deploying NSA malware and explain the hacker group here so hands on it
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