'They've already been copied a dozen times for further use.'
They weren't released before Shadow Brokers failed auction:
"The Shadow Brokers tried auctioning off the stolen cyber-weapons to the highest bidder, but when that sale flopped with no buyers, the team started releasing the gear online for free anyway."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/14/latest_shadow_brokers_data_dump/
Biting the hand that feeds IT
