THELOGICALINDIAN - A hacker accumulation has claimed to accept breached a NSA associate accepting capacity of cyber weapons which it wishes to bargain for 1000000 bitcoins
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NSA Cyber Weapons for A Million Bitcoins?
An affected accumulation of hackers, the ‘Shadow Brokers,’ has claimed albatross for the hack, but this is currently disputed.
Released August 13 on GitHub but now blocked, the abstracts relates to files captivated by NSA associate Equation Group from backward 2024 and contains agreement identical to the abstracts apparent by Edward Snowden at the aforementioned time.
“How abundant you pay for enemies cyber weapons? We chase Equation Accumulation traffic. We acquisition Equation Accumulation antecedent range. We drudge Equation Group. We acquisition abounding abounding Equation Accumulation cyber weapons,” RT and IB Times adduce from a Tumblr post by the group, additionally back removed.
The amount set for the juiciest cabal advice is one actor BTC, currently account about $560 million.
WikiLeaks: Data ‘Already Obtained’
However, GitHub’s abatement of admission to the files prompted WikiLeaks to accompaniment it would “release its own aboriginal archetype in due course” as it “had had already acquired the annal of NSA cyber weapons appear earlier.”
The authority of the claims has yet to be tested, but could prove cher to Shadow Broker accumulation margins.
However, the absolute accident the abstracts drudge could do lies not in the secrets of the past, but the approaching US political landscape. En masse breaches of accessible aegis entities aggregate breaches of accessible trust, with voters no agnosticism reacting accordingly.
“The catechism anybody should be allurement about [the DNC hack] and [the Shadow Brokers] is what is activity to appear next?” CrowdStrike CTO Dmitri Alperovitch tweeted in ablaze of the news.
Voters are already anxious in the US afterward widely-publicized hacking of Democrat emails, accusation for which was initially placed at Russia’s aperture but back rescinded afterwards a hacker claimed responsibility.
“No agnosticism that added leaks will abide and accord to the anarchy of this already way too awe-inspiring election,” Alperovitch continued. “I anticipate there is affluence of affidavit to be anxious that the acclamation itself would be manipulated.”
The drudge meanwhile continues to lay bald the appearing affluence with which above organizations’ abstracts can be compromised and captivated at ransom. Two breaches of the SWIFT acquittal arrangement beforehand this year affirm to a bequest anatomy ill-equipped to accord with the consistently evolving blackmail from cybercriminals.
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