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Cory Doctorow 11:25 am Mon Oct 31, 2016

The Shadow Brokers dump more intel from the NSA's elite Equation Group

In August, anonymous hacker(s) dumped a cache of cyberweapons that appeared to originate with The Equation Group, an elite, NSA-affiliated hacking squad.

Cory Doctorow 7:27 am Sun Aug 21, 2016

The Equation Group's sourcecode is totally fugly

With the leak of exploits developed by The Equation Group, the long-secret, NSA-adjacent super-elite hacking squad — published by The Shadow Brokers, who have some extremely heterodox theories about auction design — it's now possible to audit the source code of some of the NSA's crown-jewel cyberweapons.

Cory Doctorow 10:59 am Tue Aug 16, 2016

Snowden explains the Shadow Brokers/Equation Group/NSA hack

The news that a group of anonymous hackers claimed to have stolen some of the NSA's most secret, valuable weaponized vulnerabilities and were auctioning them off for bitcoin triggered an epic tweetstorm from Edward Snowden, who sets out his hypothesis for how the exploits were captured and what relation that has to the revelations he made when he blew the whistle on illegal NSA spying in 2013.

Cory Doctorow 1:24 pm Mon Feb 16, 2015

Shining light on the shadowy, "superhuman" state-level Equation Group hackers


For more than decade, a shadowy, heavily resourced, sophisticated hacker group that Kaspersky Labs calls the Equation Group has committed a string of daring, cutting-edge information attacks, likely at the behest of the NSA.

Xeni Jardin 5:53 pm Mon May 6, 2019

How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies

Chinese spies got a hold of NSA hacking tools, and "repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia," reports the NYT. How'd they get those cyberweapons? Symantec researchers "believe the Chinese did not steal the code but captured it from an N.S.A. — Read the rest

Cory Doctorow 9:56 am Wed Oct 25, 2017

Kaspersky's explanation for possessing secret NSA cyberweapons is a doozy

Kaspersky — a respected Russia-based security company — has been under a cloud since they were accused of stealing NSA cyberweapons on behalf of the Russian government. But the company has a perfectly innocent — if complicated and at times bizarre explanation for how it came to be in possession of the NSA's crown jewels.

Xeni Jardin 9:47 pm Tue Aug 16, 2016

Was NSA Hacked? Leak from 'Shadow Brokers' suggests so, Russian intelligence suspected

As our Cory Doctorow reported previously, a previously unheard of hacker group calling themselves The Shadow Brokers announced this week it had stolen a trove of ready-to-use cyber weapons from The Equation Group (previously), an advanced cyberweapons dealer believed to be operating on behalf of, or within, the NSA. — Read the rest

Cory Doctorow 7:45 am Tue Aug 16, 2016

Hackers claim to have stolen NSA cyberweapons, auctioning them to highest bidder

The Shadow Brokers, a previously unknown hacker group, has announced that it has stolen a trove of ready-to-use cyber weapons from The Equation Group (previously), an advanced cyberweapons dealer believed to be operating on behalf of, or within, the NSA.

Cory Doctorow 9:00 am Tue Mar 3, 2015

Three steps to save ourselves from firmware attacks


Following on the news that the (likely NSA-affiliated) Equation Group has developed a suite of firmware attacks that target the software embedded in your hard-drive and other subcomponents, it's time to expand the practice of information security to the realm of embedded software.

Xeni Jardin 3:05 pm Mon Feb 16, 2015

NSA has ability to embed spying software in computer hard drives, including yours

The agency can hide software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, reports Kaspersky Labs.

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