'Shadow Brokers' Threatens To Unmask A Hacker Who Worked Amongst Nsa

The Shadow Brokers, a notorious hacking grouping that leaked US cyberweapons — which were also abused past times the recent ransomware disasters WannaCry together with Petya or NotPetya — has at nowadays threatened to unmask the identity of a quondam hacker who worked for the NSA.

Besides this, the Shadow Brokers grouping has also doubled the cost for its monthly subscription model of NSA's built hacking tools together with zero-day exploits from 100 ZEC (Zcash) to 200 ZEC, which is or hence $64,400 USD.

Moreover, the hacking grouping has also announced a VIP service for people, who volition move entertained past times the grouping for their queries on the leaked hacking tools together with exploits.

To subscribe to the VIP service, 1 has to brand a one-time payment of 400 ZEC (around US$128,800).

Last month, the Shadow Brokers announced to unloosen to a greater extent than zero-days exploits together with hacking tools developed past times the US spy means every calendar month from June 2017, simply alone to individual members who volition subscribe for receiving exclusive access to the hereafter leaks.

The Shadow Brokers' June information dump costs 100 ZEC, simply later looking at successful increment inwards the give away of subscribers for this month, the grouping said it is raising the cost for the adjacent month's subscription.

Threatens to Unmask Equation Group Hacker

In typically broken English, the mysterious hacking grouping threatened to unmask a quondam fellow member of the NSA's elite hacking grouping called Equation Group, who developed several hacking tools to interruption into Chinese organizations.

The Shadow Brokers did non reveal much almost the quondam Equation Group member, except that the soul is living inwards Hawaii together with currently a "co-founder of a novel safety companionship together with is having much venture capital."

The group, who called the NSA Equation Group fellow member every bit "doctor," threatened because of his/her "ugly tweets" targeting the Shadow Brokers.

"TheShadowBrokers is having particular invitation message for 'doctor' soul theshadowbrokers is coming together on Twitter. 'Doctor' soul is writing ugly tweets to theshadowbrokers," the grouping said. "Then MD soul is deleting ugly tweets, perchance likewise much drinking together with tweeting?" 

"TheShadowBrokers is hoping 'doctor' soul is deciding to subscribe to dump service inwards July. If theshadowbrokers is non seeing subscription payment alongside corporate e-mail address of doctor@newsecuritycompany.com together with then theshadowbrokers mightiness move taking tweets personally together with dumping information of 'doctor' persons hacks of China alongside existent id together with safety companionship name."

Well, that's plenty of a threat.

Since June is going to end, it seems similar the Shadow Brokers subscribers who paid inwards June volition start receiving zero-day exploit together with hacking tools from the outset calendar week of July.

Although what the June dump would incorporate is non clear at the moment, the group's final annunciation claimed that the upcoming information dump would include:

• Compromised information from banks together with Swift providers.
• Exploits for operating systems, including Windows 10.
• Exploits for spider web browsers, routers, together with smartphones.
• Stolen network information from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, together with North Korean nuclear missile programs.

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