{"id":314986,"date":"2017-06-29T00:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/shadow-brokers-threaten-to-reveal-identity-of-ex-nsa-hacker\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T00:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:31:49","slug":"shadow-brokers-threaten-to-reveal-identity-of-ex-nsa-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/shadow-brokers-threaten-to-reveal-identity-of-ex-nsa-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Brokers Threaten to Reveal Identity of Ex-NSA Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Group responsible for leaking NSA exploits resurfaces<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mikael Thalen<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>June 28, 2017<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious Shadow Brokers hacking group threatened Wednesday to reveal the identity of an alleged former NSA hacker.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted online, the group \u2013 responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/shadow-brokers-release-most-damaging-nsa-hacking-tools-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaking<\/a> the NSA exploits which powered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ransomware-based-off-of-leaked-nsa-exploit-infects-computers-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WannaCry<\/a> and so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/new-ransomware-outbreak-hits-targets-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petnya<\/a> ransomware outbreaks \u2013 accused the alleged hacker in broken English of \u201cwriting ugly tweet to theshadowbrokers\u201d and of belonging to Equation Group, a highly sophisticated team suspected of NSA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TheShadowBrokers Monthly Dump Service \u2013 July 2017 \u2014 Steemit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h3awxuQ45j\">https:\/\/t.co\/h3awxuQ45j<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/shadowbrokers?src=hash\">#shadowbrokers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Petya?src=hash\">#Petya<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NotPetya?src=hash\">#NotPetya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 theshadowbrokers (@shadowbrokerss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shadowbrokerss\/status\/879955121878204416\">June 28, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTheShadowBrokers is having special invitation message for \u2018doctor\u2019 person theshadowbrokers is meeting on Twitter,\u201d the post reads. \u201c\u2019Doctor\u2019 person is writing ugly tweets to theshadowbrokers not unusual but \u2018doctor\u2019 person is living in Hawaii and is sounding knowledgeable about theequationgroup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen \u2018doctor\u2019 person is deleting ugly tweets, maybe too much drinking and tweeting? Is very strange, so theshadowbrokers is doing some digging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Shadow Brokers claimed that during his time at NSA, the alleged hacker helped develop tools used to hack Chinese organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheShadowBrokers is thinking \u2018doctor\u2019 person is former EquationGroup developer who built many tools and hacked organization in China,\u201d the post continues.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking group then threatened to reveal the identity of the \u201cdoctor,\u201d who they claim recently co-founded a cybersecurity group, unless a payment is made to the Shadow Brokers\u2019 dump service \u2013 an alleged subscriber-based system offering monthly NSA exploits to paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheShadowBrokers is thinking \u2018doctor\u2019 person is co-founder of new security company and is having much venture capital&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/shadow-brokers-threaten-to-reveal-identity-of-ex-nsa-hacker.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group responsible for leaking NSA exploits resurfaces Mikael ThalenPrison Planet.comJune 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 \u2013 responsible for leaking the NSA exploits which powered the WannaCry and so-called Petnya ransomware outbreaks \u2013 accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}