Shadow Brokers Release NSA Hacking Tools to The Public
A hacking group called Shadow Brokers has reportedly stolen powerful hacking tools from the Equation Group, a hacking group believed to be NSA-backed and responsible for many of the largest state-level hacks in history. On Saturday, Shadow Brokers released a subset of these tools to the public, which several former employees of the NSA’s hacking division, known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO), have said appear to be legitimate NSA files. Shadow Brokers is auctioning the “best files” or the remaining tools, for a price of one million bitcoin (about $568 million).
