A mysterious hacker group by the name “The Shadow Brokers” claims to have hacked the Equation Group - a government cyberattack hacking group associated with the NSA, and released a bunch of the organization's hacking tools. The hackers are also asking for 1 million bitcoin (around $568 million) in an auction to release more files.
“Attention government sponsors of cyber warfare and those who profit from it!!!!” the hackers wrote in a manifesto posted on Pastebin, on GitHub, and on a dedicated Tumblr.
In February 2015, Ars Technical dubbed The Equation Group "the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered." According to Kasperky, the "Equation Group" is a threat actor that surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques, and that has been active for almost two decades." While Kaspersky Lab stopped short of saying it’s the NSA, its researchers laid out extensive evidence pointing to the American spy agency, including a long series of codenames used by the Equation Group and found in top secret NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. The Equation Group, according to Kaspersky Lab, targeted the same victims as the group behind Stuxnet, which is widely believed to have been a joint US-Israeli operation targeting Iran’s nuclear program, and also used two of the same zero-day exploits.
So what were these spy tools they released? And what the fuck do they have to release that's worth half a billion?
Cooper Brown
what they really want is for the US to triple that offer to get the tech back, our government won't want it's tools being released like that for anyone to use
Angel Allen
doubt it, I think ideology is a bent here
they may not accept any offers from US official no matter how high they are
its about living in a better world to be able to spend your money in, no amount of money can beat that.
Robert Miller
Its true. Sources 2 and 4 confirmed it in the afternoon.
Also I need to redo my outlook service, its utter crappy.
Camden Williams
Well hopefully if the tools are released Kapersky and other companies can upgrade their computer defenses at least. Otherwise the world is about to get a lot more interesting
>US offer triples the bid >SBs take it and release the tools publicly >A clean USB arrives on the doorstep of the NSA head >it contains a 128GB JPG file that is severely corrupted >the next day another USB arrives containing the same, labelled 2/2 with a sticky note >agents are able to uncorrupt the file somewhat but major pieces of data are still missing >the third day, the final USB drive arrives, the sticky note says "3/2" >the completed file is a low-resolution troll face
Easton Martin
Have you or anyone else in this thread downloaded what was on offer for free?
I read their manifesto and it seems pretty serious.
This is better news than most of the threads we see daily.
Jason Reed
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S HAPPENING THIS IS NOT A DRILL IT'S REALLY FUCKING HAPPENING
Jack Garcia
hooray for false flag cyber attack to take the internet down for the coming false flags
Daniel Foster
Shit man I'm not touching this.
Asher Diaz
Github staff just shut off access. IDS HABBEDING :D:D
Austin White
Yeah the whole risk/reward thing they kept referring to make me a little anxious.
What would I do with whatever is downloaded but what do i have to lose by doing it?
Anthony Cruz
Wheres the proof they hacked it
Henry Ward
Bumping, any mirrors for the free software up yet?
Christian Reed
So the NSA is spying on technology companies with malicious software?
I would like to point out that US is being fucked in the ass when it comes to cyber warfare.
Jaxon Roberts
go away NSA
Colton Brown
it's a link posted by wikileaks. looks legit to me
Jacob Davis
I think this is for people that have access already so they can jsut flash a cisco router with cracked firmware, if they have finished or get caught it includes stuff to wipe >-burn >or -burn-burn of you are fucked # If you see logging at Informational or Debugging, it logs everything you # type. Also, "who" will show you who is logged on via telnet or ssh, not # console or by Morel. If you see someone else, bail! ==================================================
!!! If you see "info-center loghost X.X.X.X" during a sampleman, DO NOT IMPLANT !!! !!! Unless we own the syslog server !!! ==================================================
# This is the binary you put on a windows target; change the name # and run it like this. It will start up, and you have 60 secs to initiate # a session with the ftp server before it auto-shutdown
Is Russia behind this? The grammar was pretty fucked up in that manifesto. Almost intentionally so. Could be a false flag.
Blake Ramirez
It could be anyone. probably fucked up grammar is a way of not giving away sintaxis patern to recognize the original writer.
Austin Martinez
I honestly don't see how that would work well. With billions of people typing hourly or daily it seems like many people would blend in unless they have some sort of tag they add of the end.
Angel Murphy
They probably figure it's one less piece of evidence if they get caught.
Henry Ortiz
>I guess this is probably their way of saying they need to be bankrolled to do further work. Except they never said they were going to do further work, they're asking for payment to release what they've already uncovered. Moreover, they probably don't even intend to publicize the files, but to profit on their exclusivity by selling them off to the highest bidder. They aren't trying to publicize shady government dealings in the name of justice, they're clearly foreigners just looking for good heists to sell (most likely to foreign governments).
Carson Gutierrez
that is if you are looking without a lead. if you have suspects you can always compare and confirm/discard so as this user said
Is Snowdon behind this? Was that what his 'its time' message was about?
Jackson Williams
glad i'm not the only one who caught that
Adrian Stewart
>Reads link >Sees flag >Not today, Mossad.
Tyler Rodriguez
>forum
Jaxon Sullivan
neat.
Grayson Gomez
Something's up. Clinton and Soros are in on it. Trump starting major foreign policy leg of his campaign Chimpout in Milwaukee after a a black cop kills a black guy Soros hacked Paul "Bodies? What Bodies?" Manafort linked to being in bed with the Russians Corey (((Lewandawski))) thrown under the bus by Roger Stone Eyes are everywhere and this might be the opening of Pandora's box. The potential for ultra happening has increased.
Matthew Scott
That was not really AI, It worked like a chat bot, essentially repeating what It has been told. Sup Forums flooded the thing with Sup Forums shit, so of course the bot started spouting Sup Forums shit. Might as well have been a parrot.
Evan Taylor
They will blame Trump somehow , just watch CNN tomorrow
Daniel Bennett
Is there a bigger thread with more info on this? I am extremelly interested and this thread does not have the attention it deserves.
Landon Moore
the fuck is sheboon doon?
Lucas Lewis
The CIA hacked the NSA most likely. The CIA and NSA have been fighting over funding for years. Snowden was CIA before he became NSA, what he did makes perfect sense when you understand he was/is CIA. Multiple spy agencies In one country are never a good idea.
Nathan Cruz
Seems like the NSA found another way to finance itself.
Lincoln Thomas
>wikileaks drops soros files detailing their plans for chaos >suddenly chimpout happens in Milwaukee >suddenly anti-Manafort article from the NYT which is owned by Carlos Slim >even Breitbart, an alt right news site has a poll showing Trump losing to clinton
Something fucky is definitely going on.
Kayden Mitchell
Why did the /x/ thread got deleted, wtf is going on. Wasnt even up for 5 minutes
Asher Cook
Because it's neither paranormal nor creepy?
Jayden Wright
What can one do with these tools? Can they hack into top secret government servers and such?
Eli Morris
Holy fuck you guys, we're going to see the shit hit the fan REALLY REALLY soon.
Owen Turner
HOLY SHIT!!!!
Joshua Williams
wasn't snowden a temp that just stole some files?
Landon Bennett
Interesting theory, I doubt government agencies would auction off their top-secret hacking tools to anyone and everyone on the internet though, provided those tools are as sophisticated as claimed (see "files better than stuxnet").
Aiden Barnes
Welcome to the party.
Blake Allen
That is a bullshit statement, mods decide what they want to remove when /x/ first page has 3 divination threads, 2 dream generals, 1 serial killer general, 1 lsd thread etc which some have been up for days. Now, why did the mods deleted that particular thread is my inquiry and if you cant answer something else then fuck off.
>hurdur crying because muh mods do what they want
This is not the issue.
Jordan Phillips
Will we ever find the hacker known as Sup Forums?
Luke Thomas
they're gonna take down the fuckin net with this
Robert Garcia
she's making mud cakes for her village to eat. Little cakes out of mud. The dirt/water mixture they live in. That's their dinner most days.
Kevin Collins
It's the NSA
Isaiah Morris
is it nice there? Our climate is so much cozier so i would assume Tasmania would be cozy too
Parker Thomas
NSA SHILLS DONT PAY ATTENTION
If you haven't learned the hallmark of shills you deserve to be fooled.
Nathaniel Butler
can anybody point me to an example of the NSA actually working and doing their job as intended?
Christopher Ramirez
With these tools, one can take advantage of vulnerable SSL modules, have backdoor exploits into any devices on Cisco wireless networks, have backdoor exploits into basically every OS, and finally get past the sad panda.
Jaxon Bailey
niggers will save us
Anthony Robinson
>3 divination threads, 2 dream generals, 1 serial killer general, 1 lsd these things can all be skewed to be paranormal and/or creepy, I honestly don't get why you're so mad, /x/ is a slow shitty board anyways and it also has the highest concentration of people with legitimate mental illness like schizophrenia
Thomas Gomez
Just checked the database and everything looks okay, OP is full of shit.
Jayden Flores
Does that include TLS 1.1 and 1.2?
Jose Barnes
what relevance does the integrity of a database have to do with a stolen cache of files?
