Toys Equation group auctioned – ZDNet France

The “Shadow Brokers’ group wants to sell the exploits of the NSA to the highest bidder. The group has appeared in recent days on different networks to Pastebin on Twitter. These remain unknown for now, but be able to explain get their hands on exploits and code belonging to the designated group under the name of Equation Group. And the Shadow Brokers offer these tools to the highest bidder in an online auction.
 

the equation group is the name given to a Kaspersky APT group identified at the beginning of 2015. Described as extremely sophisticated, this group is believed to have close links with the malware creators such as Stuxnet, Duqu or Flame. Kaspesky refuses any assignment, but members of The Equation Group seem related to the NOS according to information published by the Russian cyber security company.
 

The Shadow Brokers proclaims so in a clumsy English, be able to get their hands on the tools of one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world. Yet there is something questionable whether the ad is not a simple scam coming enjoy the indoor climate to raise bitcoins. On the one hand, The Shadow Brokers members do not give many details about how they obtained the data. Furthermore, the model chosen for the auctioning of their loot is a bit strange. The auctions have no fixed deadline, members of Shadow Broker reserves the right to end the auction at any time. They also state that the sums advanced by the applicants are not refunded if the bid is finally won by another. They hope to meet not less than one million bitcoin and explain in their messages that they are focusing on the fact that the Equation group will seek to participate so that their tools do not fall into the wrong hands.
 

Finally, no one could verify the authenticity of files sold by the Shadow Brokers. Only part of the files was published by cybercriminals freely and several experts indicated that the data they were able to examine seem to support the thesis of piracy have got hold of the equation group of tools.
 

While The Shadow Brokers would they managed to hack the NSA? Unsurprisingly, the agency has declined to comment on the subject. Edward Snowden has nevertheless bothered to spend a few tweets in the case to give its opinion on the subject. For the former contractor of the NSA, the most credible hypothesis is that mysterious sellers managed to get hold of a Command and Control server NSA and have managed to recover today auctioned files . Snowden says that this type of hacking is nothing new and is part of daily intelligence agencies, but stressed that this kind of maneuver is rarely so if open and public. The former agent therefore suspect that the advertising of the case is linked to the recent hack of the Democratic convention, quickly attributed to Russia.
 

In this tense context, there are the inevitable troublemakers around in circles: Wikileaks. The organization has announced via a tweet that she had a copy of the files recovered by the Shadow Brokers, and that it intended to publish the documents and data on its website later this week. Not so need to go blaze his bitcoins in the auction organized by the Shadow Brokers: if Wikileaks keeps its promises, the data will be published shortly.