Shadow Brokers Announces New NSA Malware Leaks

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The Shadow Brokers, the group responsible for hacking into the US National Security Agency last year, has promised to filter the NSA's UNITEDRAKE malware to its subscribers this September.

In early June, the group of hackers announced the launch of a subscription service, called Monthly Dump, which would filter a new batch of hacking tools from the NSA in exchange for a payment of 100 Zcash, a virtually criptomoneda impossible to track, that the current change is about 20,500 euros. In the month of July took place the second delivery at a price of 200 Zcash, and in August the third by 500 Zcash.

This week, The Shadow Brokers has posted an update reporting some changes to the terms of the Monthly Dump service. In the post they point out, among other things, that subscribers will receive two downloads each month, and also have included a calendar with each of the deliveries, which will arrive every fifteen days starting on September 15 and ending on November 15. The total amount to have access to the eight deliveries is 16,000 Zcash, which at the current exchange are almost 3,300,000 euros.

Entries for the month of September would include the UNITEDRAKE user manual, an NSA exploit that came to light in 2014 by the leaks of Edward Snowden that is used in conjunction with other plugins and allows full control of infected computers . This malware is capable of compromising computers with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows Vista, Windows 7 SP1 and later, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

As we learned from the massive attack on ransomware Wannacry, the vulnerability of operating systems to falling into the wrong hands is a global security risk. The Shadows Brokers was responsible for the leak of EternalBlue, the exploit on which Wannacry is based, so new leaks could lead to further massive attacks in the future.