You don't see this every day...a hacking group claims to have hacked a U.S. intelligence agency-linked hacking group and has put the 'best' cyber weapons up for auction.When Kaspersky Lab released a report on the cyberespionage "Equation Group," researchers said the threat actor "surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques." The group's toolset resembled what is used by U.S. intelligence agencies and included an attack that could reprogram your hard drive firmware. Kaspersky didn't go so far as to accuse the NSA of being linked to the Equation Group, but many news outlets and security researchers did.
Well now a group dubbed the Shadow Brokers claim to have hacked the Equation Group and put the possible NSA-linked cyber weapons up for auction.
Quite honestly this could be fake ‐ even the broken English announcement could be faked to make the attackers seem to not use English as their native language ‐ but the Shadow Brokers said on GitHub:
How much you pay for enemies cyber weapons? Not malware you find in networks. Both sides, RAT + LP, full state sponsor tool set? We find cyber weapons made by creators of stuxnet, duqu, flame. Kaspersky calls Equation Group. We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many many Equation Group cyber weapons. You see pictures. We give you some Equation Group files free, you see. This is good proof no? You enjoy!!! You break many things. You find many intrusions. You write many words. But not all, we are auction the best files.