The hacker grouping that's believed to live on behind the high-profile cyber theft of NSA hacking tools too exploits that sparked a larger combat on the Internet concerning abilities of USA tidings agencies too their ain security
The grouping lay the stolen cyber weapons on auction simply received non much answer too gone serenity for some time.
However, The Shadow Brokers has instantly appeared to convey lay upward the NSA's hacking tools too exploits for conduct sale on an surreptitious website.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 newly uncovered site reportedly contains a file signed alongside the cryptographic key of The Shadow Brokers, suggesting the hacker grouping has instantly moved to sell NSA hacking tools straight to buyers ane yesteryear one, Motherboard reports.
On Wednesday, someone going yesteryear pseudonym Boceffus Cleetus published a postal service on Medium, proverb that the Shadow Brokers hackers are instantly selling "NSA tools individually."
"The site also lets visitors download a alternative of screenshots too files related to each item," notes Joseph Cox of Motherboard. "Along alongside those is a file signed alongside a PGP key alongside an identical fingerprint to that linked to the master Shadow Brokers dump of exploits from August."
The spider web log titled "Are the Shadow Brokers selling tools on ZeroNet?," reports a listing of items, supposedly for sale on ZeroNet yesteryear the Shadow Brokers, alongside titles similar "ENVOYTOMATO, EGGBASKET, too YELLOWSPIRIT."
ZeroNet is a decentralized Internet-like network for hosting websites using blockchain cryptography equally DNS servers too BitTorrent technology equally file servers.
Each of the items (NSA hacking tools) on the site is categorized into a type — similar "exploits," "Trojans," too "implant" — each of which is ranged from 1 to 100 Bitcoins (from $780 to $78,000).
Anyone, including state-sponsored hackers alongside nation’s funding, could purchase all the exploits for roughly $780,000.
