A hacking collective calling itself ‘Shadow Brokers’ claims to have hacked an NSA affiliate and obtained a set of US government spying and surveillance tools – which it is now willing to auction off for at least half a billion dollars in Bitcoin.
Over the weekend the so-called Shadow Brokers collective released “samples” of the files the group said belonged to the Equation Group, which is believed to be a National Security Agency's (NSA) affiliate.
The Equation Group, a collection of hackers, has previously been accused by the Kaspersky Lab of using techniques and tools very similar to those of the NSA. In 2015 Kaspersky Lab called the group “a threat actor that surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques, and that has been active for almost two decades.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/356081-hackers-nsa-spying-tools/
