Hackers claims to have obtained US cyber Weapons and auctioned for 1000000 BTC
One of the most active group of hackers known as the shadow brokers claims to have obtained cyber surveillance weapons which are used by US secret services.The hackers group AUCTION the tools for 01 million BTC The origin place of hackers is under discussion.
The hackers group named Shadow brokers said that the software auctioned was developed and used by the Equation Group, which have linked with the Unites state national Security Agency. The cyber tools used by different countries.
Hackers put some data online while maximum data files are offered to the highest bidder, And one more interesting thing is that the auction has no time limit, The hackers saying about bidding that they will stop the bidding when they "feel is time to end"01 Million bitcoins which are more than half billion US dollars,and one other bad news for bidders is that those who do not win the auction will not have their money back.and one interesting and favorable message for all those who want to bid for this secret cyber weapons is that if the target is met the hackers group promise a " consolation prize" to dump more equation Group files for free.
The hackers post this news for bidding on Tumbler which is no inaccessible but its copy is available on Reddit in a thread. The posted message for bidding and about hacking the cyber tools is written in very poor English language and contains a message to the "wealthy elites"
“Elites is making laws protect self and friends, lie and fuck other peoples. Elites is breaking laws, regular peoples go to jail, life ruin, family ruin, but not Elites. Elites is breaking laws, many peoples know Elites guilty, Elites call top friends at law enforcement and government agencies… Elites top friends announce, no law broken, no crime commit… Then Elites runs for president. Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship?.. If Equation Group lose control of cyber weapons, who else lose or find cyber weapons? If electronic data go bye bye where leave Wealthy Elites?.. Wealthy Elites, you send bitcoins, you bid in auction, maybe big advantage for you?”
and there in reddit one redditor theplot reacted
“Boy, that whole message screams Slavic native thrashing around in English.”
The reddit user NyupDeddyXMTN replied
“Thats what they want you to think… Sounds the opposite: Screams English trying to appear to be Slavic.”
A former NSA research scientist believes that Russia is behind the cyber attack and as foreign policy puts it"“we are witnessing a small part of the shadow war playing out between Washington and Moscow.” This opinion is shared on twitter by Edward snowden in his twitter feed he said that
“circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility.”
Edward believes the hack is a diplomatic move a warning that someone can prove United State responsibility for any attack that originated from this malware server.
As the files put online seemingly date from 2013,some Redditors suspect snowden himself of the leak.
it is not obvious that the files put on auction pose any real threat,The researchers who studies the samples put online by the hackers came to the conclusion that they "could be used' but are unlikely "to cause any significant operational damage"(NDTV)
According to the Redditor YN
“Even if this isn't as big as it seems it may be, I hope this will at least reinvigorate the anger about the illegal spying. Whether or not people were comfortable with the US Govt snooping, far fewer will be comfortable with it if they believe that the information will be vulnerable.”
The Bitcoin address supplied by the Hackers known as Shadow group has received fifteen transactions totaling 1.629 Bitcoins.