In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh disputation (with amount of frustration) a few hours ago, promising to unloose to a greater extent than zero-day bugs together with exploits for diverse desktop together with mobile platforms starting from June 2017.
However, this fourth dimension the Shadow Brokers leaks volition non hold out available for everybody, equally the hacking collective said:
"TheShadowBrokers is launching novel monthly subscription model. Is existence similar [the] vino of calendar month club. Each calendar month peoples tin hold out paying membership fee, hence getting members entirely information dump each month."
To to a greater extent than or less extent, this is proficient news, but it is terrible intelligence too. Good because forthwith all these upcoming alleged unpatched vulnerabilities volition hold out patched afterward existence disclosed together with terrible because the grouping volition sell novel zero-day exploits together with hacking tools to somebody members with paid monthly subscription, instead of telling them to Microsoft.
Apparently, other hackers, criminal gangs, state-sponsored hackers, peradventure to a greater extent than or less journalists together with people from tech companies, would naturally bring together Shadow Brokers' membership.
Get Ready for the 'Wine of Month Club'
So, anyone buying the membership of the "wine of calendar month club" would hold out able to larn exclusive access to the upcoming leaks, which the Shadow Brokers claims would include:
- Exploits for spider web browsers, routers, together with smartphones.
- Exploits for operating systems, including Windows 10.
- Compromised information from banks together with Swift providers.
- Stolen network information from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, together with North Korean nuclear missile programs.
The claims made past times the grouping rest unverified at the fourth dimension of writing, but since the Shadow Brokers' previously released information dump turned out to hold out legitimate, the group's disputation should hold out taken seriously, at to the lowest degree now, when nosotros know the EternalBlue exploit together with DoublePulsar backdoor developed past times the NSA together with released past times the Shadow Brokers concluding calendar month was used past times WannaCry to crusade chaos worldwide.
Before publicly dumping these exploits inwards April, the Shadow Brokers lay an auction of cyber weapons stolen from NSA’s elite hacking squad called Equation Group for 1 Million Bitcoin.
After failed auction, the hacking grouping fifty-fifty lay upward those hacking tools together with exploits for straight sale on an secret site, categorizing them into a type — similar "exploits," "Trojans," together with "implant" — each of which ranged from 1 to 100 Bitcoins (from $780 to $78,000).
After failure from all sides, the grouping started leaking those hacking exploits. Last month, the Shadow Brokers released a Microsoft Windows SMB exploit that was used past times the WannaCry ransomware, which infected 200,000 machines inwards 150 countries within simply 48 hours.
While talking nigh the WannaCry ties with North Korean state-sponsored hacking grouping Lazarus Group, the grouping said:
"The Oracle is telling theshadowbrokers Democratic People's South Korea is existence responsible for the global cyber laid on Wanna Cry. Nukes together with cyber attacks, America has to larn to war, no other choices!"
Shadow Brokers Lashed out on the United States of America Government together with Tech Companies
In its recent post, the Shadow Brokers criticized both the the United States of America authorities together with tech companies, such equally Microsoft, for non slap-up downwardly on the exploits when they had the chance, months earlier their release.
The hacking grouping said the the United States of America authorities is paying tech companies non to piece zero-days inwards their products, claiming that it has spies within Microsoft with other the United States of America tech firms.
The Shadow Brokers fifty-fifty defendant Google Project Zero team, saying:
"TheShadowBrokers is thinking Google Project Zero is having to a greater extent than or less one-time TheEquationGroup member. Project Zero lately releasing "Wormable Zero-Day" Microsoft patching inwards tape time, knowing it was coming? Coincidence?"
Who knows if these accusation made past times the Shadow Brokers grouping are truthful or not, but the basis should hold out good prepared for to a greater extent than or less other WannaCry-like massive destroyer.
