Cyber Weapons Offers by a Hacking Group in Online Auction

Cyber Weapons Offers by a Hacking Group in Online Auction

Cyber weapons are offered by hacking group in an online auction. On Monday (August 15, 2016) the hacking group was named Shadow Brokers offers stolen surveillance tools that were used U.S National Security Agency (NSA) related cyber group.

The program samples were released by hackers that can break firewall software made by companies such as Fortinet Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, and Juniper Networks Inc to arouse the interest of viewers.  NSA and other companies did not respond to the offer.

Equation Group is the one who developed the “cyber weapons” that was posted in the Tumblr Blog by Shadow Brokers as auction material. The cyber security experts believed that the hacking group was used to be NSA arm.

“Better than Stuxnet” is the program that will be included in the auction according to the Shadow Brokers. This program aims to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program through malicious computer worm attributed to US and Israel.

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