updated Tue. January 3, 2023
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 15, 2018
And in the summer of 2016, a mysterious group, the Shadow Brokers, obtained top-secret exploits and cyber tools developed by the NSA, and began releasing them to the public. A few tools were used by cyber criminals in global attacks. Security has grown more rigorous in the wake of the scandals at theÃâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
March 15, 2018
Since then, the NSA has endured a number of other breaches, including the theft of hacking tools that have been published online by the Shadow Brokers, a mysterious group that regularly posts cryptic taunts toward the U.S. government. Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat and staunch privacy advocate,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 15, 2018
FILE PHOTO: Lt. Gen. Paul M. Nakasone testifies before a senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be general and director of the National Security Agency, chief of the Central Security Service and commander of United States Cyber Command, Defense Department; on Capitol HillÃâà...
BleepingComputer
March 12, 2018
The main reason why the nature of the Territorial Dispute utility took so long to determine was because it was included in the same Shadow Brokers leak that also incorporated EternalBlue, the exploit used in the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, but also EternalRomance, EternalSynergy, FuzzBunch, andÃâà...
TechTarget
March 8, 2018
The surprising part is how much detail continues to be exposed by the Shadow Brokers, which continues to be an intelligence disaster." Leon Lerman, co-founder and CEO of Cynerio, a healthcare cybersecurity company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and other experts agreed this NSA tracking programÃâà...
iTWire
March 2, 2018
But the leaks by the Shadow Brokers was the straw that broke the camel's back. Even so, had the NSA been able to determine the identity of those behind the leaks early on in the piece, Kaspersky Lab may have escaped. Given that the NSA, the best-resourced and most experienced digital spy outfit in theÃâà...
Boing Boing
February 20, 2018
The epidemic of cryptojacking malware isn't merely an outgrowth of the incentive created by the cryptocurrency bubble -- that's just the motive, and the all-important the means and opportunity were provided by the same leaked NSA superweapon that powered last year's Wannacry ransomware epidemic.
SC Magazine
February 14, 2018
Working with Russian and American intermediaries in Europe over the past year, the U.S. intelligence community reportedly negotiated in secret to retrieve classified documents nicked from the National Security Agency (NSA) by the Shadow Brokers and passed along to Russian intelligence – and evenÃâà...
SC Magazine UK
February 13, 2018
Working with Russian and American intermediaries in Europe over the past year, the US intelligence community reportedly negotiated in secret to retrieve classified documents stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA) by the Shadow Brokers and passed along to Russian intelligence – and even paidÃâà...
Observer
February 13, 2018
NSA quickly figured out the Shadow Brokers were a front for Russian intelligence; indeed, the hackers displayed scant concern for masking who they really were. This setback has produced bad headlines for the agency for well over a year now, as stolen NSA exploits have appeared online and have beenÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 10, 2018
The president has called the Russia investigation a "witch hunt." U.S. officials have said that information stolen from the NSA included computer code used in classified government hacking operations. That information was obtained by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, which officials privately sayÃâà...
RT
February 9, 2018
The CIA and NSA were engaged in secret negotiations with a “Russian intermediary” last year in a desperate effort to retrieve documents and hacking tools stolen by the mysterious Shadow Brokers collective, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen wrote in an article for the Intercept, citing sourcesÃâà...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
When the mysterious entity known as the “Shadow Brokers” released a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools to the internet a year ago, most experts who studied the material homed in on the most potent tools, so-called zero-day exploits that could be used to install malware and take over machines.
SC Magazine
December 31, 1999
A group of Hungarian researchers found that the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to scan for and track nation-state threat groups when NSA workers were conducting operations inside other country's systems. The research comes from the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security, alsoÃâà...
