Group responsible for leaking NSA exploits resurfaces
Mikael Thalen
Prison Planet.com
June 28, 2017
The mysterious Shadow Brokers hacking group threatened Wednesday to reveal the identity of an alleged former NSA hacker.
In a message posted online, the group – responsible for leaking the NSA exploits which powered the WannaCry and so-called Petnya ransomware outbreaks – accused the alleged hacker in broken English of “writing ugly tweet to theshadowbrokers” and of belonging to Equation Group, a highly sophisticated team suspected of NSA.
TheShadowBrokers Monthly Dump Service – July 2017 — Steemit https://t.co/h3awxuQ45j #shadowbrokers #Petya #NotPetya
— theshadowbrokers (@shadowbrokerss) June 28, 2017
“TheShadowBrokers is having special invitation message for ‘doctor’ person theshadowbrokers is meeting on Twitter,” the post reads. “’Doctor’ person is writing ugly tweets to theshadowbrokers not unusual but ‘doctor’ person is living in Hawaii and is sounding knowledgeable about theequationgroup.”
“Then ‘doctor’ person is deleting ugly tweets, maybe too much drinking and tweeting? Is very strange, so theshadowbrokers is doing some digging.”
The Shadow Brokers claimed that during his time at NSA, the alleged hacker helped develop tools used to hack Chinese organizations.
“TheShadowBrokers is thinking ‘doctor’ person is former EquationGroup developer who built many tools and hacked organization in China,” the post continues.
The hacking group then threatened to reveal the identity of the “doctor,” who they claim recently co-founded a cybersecurity group, unless a payment is made to the Shadow Brokers’ dump service – an alleged subscriber-based system offering monthly NSA exploits to paying customers.
“TheShadowBrokers is thinking ‘doctor’ person is co-founder of new security company and is having much venture capital….