NSA’s Equation Group Hacking Tools Available for a Million Bitcoins
The highly secretive NSA arm, Equation Group's systems were compromised by hackers, who are now willing to sell the stolen hacking tools for 1 million Bitcoin. The hacker just became the hacked. A known offshoot of the National Security Agency responsible for conducting cyber-attacks across the world has been targeted by a group of unknown hackers. According to reports, a bunch of hacking tools used by the NSA’s Equation Group for conducting cyber-attacks were dumped online recently by the hackers who allegedly made way into their systems. The publicly dumped files include malware, private....
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An undisclosed group of hackers operating under the alias of “The Shadow Brokers,” has hacked another hacking group known as “Equation Group,” which many security experts and firms believe is connected to the NSA. The Shadow Brokers have set a price tag of 1 million Bitcoin for the compromised data, which is currently worth US$572 million. The Equation Group, which was unravelled by reputable cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs in 2015, is an alleged hacking organization under the NSA which handles confidential data related to its cybersecurity systems and cyber weapons. WikiLeaks and....
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