Shadow Broker hacking group auctions off claimed NSA online spy tools A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers has started an online auction for top-of-the-range tools it claims were stolen from the Equation Group, a digital attack squad linked to the NSA. The Shadow Brokers posted up news of the auction saying (in broken English) that they had been monitoring the Equation Group's servers, had …
> Looks like a random collection of files, grouped under names that were gathered from Snowden documents.
Hell, I give you all that and more for 1/1000 of the price! In fact, give me an additional 100 quid and I will even throw in a complete codebook that will allow you to decode AManFromMars' posts!
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#!/bin/bash
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
size=$(( (RANDOM % 128) + 64 ))
dd bs=${size}M count=1 if=/dev/random | \
base64 -w 64 > ${line}.txt
done < Equation_Tool_List.txt
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Decryption of the files is Left As Exercise For The Reader™
Taking a quick look through the files, there appear to be files that target a number of older Juniper Netscreen and Cisco ASA firmware releases.
Whether they do what they say on the tin is another issue and would require further testing....
Re: that additional £100 Genuine Equation Group boot sale headlined offer from ammabamma
Hmmm? Howdy, ammabamma,
What is there to decode and reveal, other than one's own AIrelative position in a novel virtual situation with ennobling passing realities, whenever everything is freely shared in plaintexted English for easy global feed and seed translation into alien tongues ‽ .
MainStreamNews and FlashCashMedia are not there being used to Guide the Arrogant and Ignorant Masses on the High Way, whenever they and IT engage in Black Chambered Dark Webs which aspire to conspire to hide and dim and dumb down Future Paths.
Such is a right hellish job though, with no rest ever left for the wicked, and thus be all so wedded and embedded systemically catastrophically doomed to spectacular failure when, well, the Heavenly Truth be outed with Deliveries Open SourcedD via Global Operating Devices would quite magically start a whole new chapter with quite different underpinning beginnings.
Yep, you surpassed yourself there amfM1, almost lyrical in places. .... Alister
And this is one of those new fangled and entangling NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive Sub-plots in ITs unfolding and AI exercising of new abilities and facilities, Alister. ........ The Deep State's Catch-22
Deny the virtuality and actuality is real, and be proven deluded and rendered excluded from future systems of remote dramatic correction.
The folks who first IDed the Equation Group at Kaspersky are saying the binaries use encryption the way the EG uses it, and consider that to be good evidence this is a real exposure.
At least one ASA vulnerability is new and useful, a good insider attack tool.
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