Is the NSA Baiting the Shadow Brokers with Seized Bitcoin?

Having failed to win big rewards for the stolen National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools it auctioned last year, the Shadow Brokers hacking group is now trying to cash in on what credibility it might have left through a new monthly dumping service that accepts Zcash. The group has tried holding a public auction, a crowdfunding campaign and selling individual exploits. Shadow Brokers now wants to see if people will pay a monthly fee for a dump of exploits. They promised the following data and tools in mid-May: • Mobile handset tools and exploits • Compromised data from central banks and....

The Shadow Brokers have backtracked from the auction, they are now willing to make the password public for 10,000 BTCs in crowdfunding. It was expected to turn out this way. The hacker group, Shadow Brokers that was responsible for obtaining a cache of cyber-attack tools allegedly used by US National Security Agency’s Equation Group has decided to get rid of the auction process. The decision was made by the hacking group a few days ago after it failed to gain enough attention. According to Shadow Brokers’ recent post on Medium two days ago, the hacker group is now willing to give away the....

So far, the auction held by The Shadow Brokers has collected 1.761 Bitcoin, which is next to nothing. The Shadow Brokers are attracting a lot of attention with their so-called NSA exploit kit auction. Although the group is demanding a price of 1 million Bitcoin, several of the bis which have been confirmed raise some questions. The US government obtained several thousand Bitcoin when shutting down Silk Road. What is preventing them from using this funds to win the auction? Hardly anyone will be surprised to hear the US government will do everything they can to prevent this NSA toolkit from....

The authenticity of NSA files released by Shadow Brokers has been proven after comparing it with available documents previously leaked by Edward Snowden. The authenticity of files released by Shadow Brokers has been confirmed. According to multiple sources, the tools and exploits dumped by the hacker group did indeed originate from the NSA systems. The particulars of these cyber tools and exploits were matched with a recent set of documents leaked by Edward Snowden to confirm its authenticity. The latest batch of Snowden files was published recently by a New York-based online publication....

Finland’s customs authority is looking for brokers to sell 1,981 bitcoins seized in drug cases. The coins are currently worth nearly $80 million. Finland’s customs authority announced Thursday that it is seeking brokers to sell 1,981 bitcoins seized in drug busts, Bloomberg reported, noting that the coins were forfeited to the state by court order. At the time of writing, the bitcoin stash is worth $78.75 million. Most of the seized coins were accumulated in raids before 2018. The Finnish State Treasury set out guidelines for handling crypto assets that year. It prohibited....