A hacking group, The Shadow Brokers, who stole the hacking tools from National Security Agency (NSA) in August is now trying to crowdfund campaign instead of selling it at 10,000 bitcoin ($6.38 million). No one was interested in buying it because of it's overpriced.
The group was allegedly formed by Russians and was state-sponsored. They claim to have obtained “many many Equation Group cyber weapons.”
After hacking the tools, the group released more than half of it for free and decided to sell the rest half part. But recently only the group complained that they couldn’t find a buyer.
According to the reports, ShadowBrokers said that they "would keep all the bitcoins, even from those who had lost the auction, but would release other free hacking tools in consolation."
"TheShadowBrokers is being bored with auction so no more auction. Auction off. Auction finish. Auction done. No winners. So who is wanting a password? TheShadowBrokers is publicly posting the password when to receive 10,000 btc (ten thousand bitcoins). Same bitcoin address, same file, the password is crowdfunding. Sharing risk. Sharing reward. Everyone winning".
Security Week reported that the group is interested in making money from it, "TheShadowBrokers is not being interested in fame. TheShadowBrokers is selling to be making money and you peoples is never hearing from TheShadowBrokers again!. TheShadowBrokers is being disappointed peoples no seeing novelty of auction solution. Auction is design for to make benefit TheShadowBrokers.”
Previously they have been named as the most destructive and advanced hacking group by the Kaspersky Lab. It is alleged that this group has helped Edward Snowden in releasing the top secret documents against NSA.
The hacking tools are working perfectly and is even capable of bypassing all the enterprise firewalls.
The group was allegedly formed by Russians and was state-sponsored. They claim to have obtained “many many Equation Group cyber weapons.”
After hacking the tools, the group released more than half of it for free and decided to sell the rest half part. But recently only the group complained that they couldn’t find a buyer.
According to the reports, ShadowBrokers said that they "would keep all the bitcoins, even from those who had lost the auction, but would release other free hacking tools in consolation."
"TheShadowBrokers is being bored with auction so no more auction. Auction off. Auction finish. Auction done. No winners. So who is wanting a password? TheShadowBrokers is publicly posting the password when to receive 10,000 btc (ten thousand bitcoins). Same bitcoin address, same file, the password is crowdfunding. Sharing risk. Sharing reward. Everyone winning".
Security Week reported that the group is interested in making money from it, "TheShadowBrokers is not being interested in fame. TheShadowBrokers is selling to be making money and you peoples is never hearing from TheShadowBrokers again!. TheShadowBrokers is being disappointed peoples no seeing novelty of auction solution. Auction is design for to make benefit TheShadowBrokers.”
Previously they have been named as the most destructive and advanced hacking group by the Kaspersky Lab. It is alleged that this group has helped Edward Snowden in releasing the top secret documents against NSA.
The hacking tools are working perfectly and is even capable of bypassing all the enterprise firewalls.