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Hackers Stole Powerful NSA Cyberweapons – Now They are for Sale!

<p>In August&comma; a group of hackers known as the &ldquo&semi;Shadow Brokers&rdquo&semi; claimed to have infiltrated NSA and stolen over &dollar;500 million worth of &ldquo&semi;cyberweapons&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They released a few files to prove it and the codes seemed genuine&period; &ldquo&semi;A tracking code found in code released by the group used a tracking code found in previously unreleased Edward Snowden files&comma;&rdquo&semi; reports <em>The Hill&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; Shadow Brokers is selling the NSA&rsquo&semi;s package of Windows hacking tools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The group initially tried to auction the secret files for millions of dollars&comma; but who wants to bid on something when they don&rsquo&semi;t know what it is&quest; On top of that&comma; many believed the Brokers&nbsp&semi;would keep the money and refuse to deliver the files to the winner &ndash&semi; or simply release the cyberweapons for free if they received enough money&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But they didn&rsquo&semi;t receive enough money&comma; and now Shadow Brokers is running a sale on NSA tools&comma; selling them piece by piece at Bitcoin prices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can purchase the whole payload for BTC 1000 &ndash&semi; which is just under &dollar;800&comma;000&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This new sale coincides with increased animosity towards WikiLeaks&comma; a group also claiming to have access to the NSA tools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;&commat;wikileaks &lbrack;re&rsqb;member when you claimed you had stuff from &num;shadowbrokers&comma; what happened to that&quest;&rdquo&semi; the semi-literate group tweeted on Saturday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hackers have also accused WikiLeaks of hoarding personal information about Twitter users&period; &ldquo&semi;LOL thinking same&comma; this is nature of human animal&comma; today&rsquo&semi;s dissident is tomorrow&rsquo&semi;s dictator&comma; &num;trustnoone &num;nomoresecrets &num;f&ast;&ast;&ast;theworld&excl;&rdquo&semi; the group tweeted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bottom line here is that the NSA lost sensitive information and that information is now on sale to any nefarious party that wants to use it&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Interesting that the CIA used the &&num;8220&semi;footprint&&num;8221&semi; of alleged Russian cybertools to prove Russia&&num;8217&semi;s involvement&period; But how many times have those tools been stolen and how many other parties use these same tools&quest; One would think NSA is more security than the Russian intel services&period; Bottom line&comma; if a system is open to one hacker&comma; it is open to dozens&comma; maybe hundreds of others&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s how it works folks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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