The hacking grouping is straightaway selling around other packet of hacking tools, “Equation Group Windows Warez,” which includes Windows exploits together with antivirus bypass tools, stolen from the NSA-linked hacking unit, The Equation Group.
For those unfamiliar amongst the topic, The Shadow Brokers is a notorious grouping of black-hat hackers who, inwards August 2016, leaked exploits, safety vulnerabilities, together with "powerful espionage tools" created past times The Equation Group.
On Saturday, the Shadow Brokers posted a message on their ZeroNet based website, announcing the sale of the entire "Windows Warez" collection for 750 Bitcoin (around US$678,630).
The information dump contains many windows hacking tools, categorized every bit following:
- Fuzzing tools (used to uncovering errors together with safety loopholes)
- Exploit Framework
- Network Implants
- Remote Administration Tools (RAT)
- Remote Code Execution Exploits for IIS, RDP, RPC, SMB Protocols (Some Zero-Days)
- SMB BackDoor (Implant)
Besides this, malware researcher Jacob Williams analyzed the archive of "screenshots together with output of the uncovering ascendance across the dump" provided past times the hacker every bit an testify of legitimacy together with estimated that the tools may also include a Fully Undetectable Malware (FUD) toolkit.
The buyers tin forcefulness out purchase the entire database of hacking tools that The Equation Group used against diverse countries to expand its espionage operations.
In August, the Shadow Brokers announced an auction attempting to sell the consummate gear upwards of tools to the highest bidder, but the grouping canceled their auction inwards Oct due to petty or no reply on their populace sale.
But since this fourth dimension the grouping has made Windows hacking tools upwards for sale, the chances are that hackers together with espionage groups would live on interested inwards buying these hacking tools.
