> Shadow Brokers Calls It Quits After Failing To Get Buyers For NSA Exploits > > But group says it is still willing to dump its collection of Linux and > Windows tools if it gets 10,000 bitcoins. > > 1/12/2017 > > Just days after offering for sale a database of Windows exploits > allegedly purloined from an outfit thought to be affiliated with the > National Security Agency (NSA), the infamous ShadowBrokers hacking > crew has apparently decided to call it quits. > > As a parting gift, they released an archive of nearly five-dozen > Windows hacking tools for free Thursday in an apparent last ditch > effort to convince potential buyers of the authenticity of their goods. > > They also promised to come out of hiding and still release a > collection of Linux and Windows exploits in their possession to anyone > willing to pay the equivalent of slightly more than $8 million (10,000 > bitcoins at current rates) for it. > > In a parting note on the group’s website, the Shadow Brokers claimed > the decision to go dark had to do entirely with money, or rather the > fact they hadn’t made as much of it as expected from their hacking wares. > > The language in the note appeared almost deliberately contrived to > make it seem as if members of the group are non-native English > speakers. “Despite theories, it always being about bitcoins for > TheShadowBrokers,” the note claimed. “Free dumps and bullshit > political talk was being for marketing attention.” > > The farewell note expressed the group’s disappointment with their lack > of success in finding buyers for attack tools they had tried to > auction off last year and admonished people for not believing in the > Shadow Brokers... >
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