Lending credence to Shadow Brokers claims, is that it?s not released emails or documents, but legitimate hacking tools. Ars reports that they are rather advanced too and date back to as early as 2010, suggesting quite a comprehensive breach.
?We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many, many Equation Group cyber weapons [?] You break many things. You find many intrusions [?] we auction the best files,? the Shadow Brokers? post reads.
Currently Shadow Brokers are looking for a million Bitcoins in return, or around ?430 million.
Although there has yet to be any word from the NSA or an official representative of any hacking group, some security analysts have confirmed that at least portions of the hacked files and tools appear to be genuine. However the general consensus so far is that Equation Group wasn?t hacked, but one of its command-and-control servers was, which let the ?brokers gain access to some data, but far from all.
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