In recent years, the National Security Agency US (NSA, for its acronym in English) has been in the spotlight, accused of having no limits when undertaking their activities.
it was criticized for spying on the United Nations, access to private information of heads of state from around the world and massively collect data of its citizens, as unveiled its exanalista Edward Snowden.
But now it appears that their spy tools have seen the light. Or, at least, the screens of many Internet users.
And some hackers announced that they were putting up for sale at auction.
Files and tools spying Security Agency United States allegedly auctioned were 2013 | Photo: NSA
Everything indicates that the spies were spied upon: their accounts appear to have been “hacked”
But what was what happened and who is behind. the alleged theft?
runners in the shadow
the group behind the “hack”, hitherto unknown, is called “ shadow Brokers “ (” Runners in the shadow “).
the hackers said on Twitter that gained access to the networks of the NSA and penetrate a lot of Group files equations, the most powerful division of the agency, which has the most “sophisticated techniques” of cyber espionage, as announced in 2015 a report by security firm Kaspersky.
And then they decided to put the tools of “hack” for sale on the Github web platform and on its website Tumblr, and disabled.
Tumblr page where “runners in the shadow” published the information has been cleared. “There’s nothing here,” reads, in English | Photo: Tumblr
Wikileaks also confirmed that it had all those files, but did not say how it had obtained
A million bitcoins <. / h2>
in the online auction “hackers” asked a million bitcoins (about US $ 570 million).
“We found many cyber weapons Group Equation. Look at the pictures. We offer some of their free files, is a good test does not it? Enjoy! [...] We are auctioning off the best files “hackers said Saturday.
These documents contained, according with The Hacker News , “ scripts installation, configuration server command and control (C & C) and exploit (pieces of software) designed to attack firewalls US companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper and Fortinet. “
still is by checking whether all these documents are legitimate, but some cybersecurity experts think so.
“we still have not checked the exploit but we are confident that seem legitimate,” he told the Daily Dot Matt Suiche, founder of cybersecurity Comae Technologies, based United Arab Emirates.
a “diplomatic issue”
Others, however, say that it is a hoax.
“the authors (of cyber attack) put a lot of effort into this fraud,” he said security firm the grugq .
However, Snowden, who worked in the NSA- considered it was a real attack and that everything indicates that “Russian responsibility,” which would add tension to the alleged theft of information from computers Democratic Party, also attributed to the Eurasian nation.
Snowden said that the alleged “hacking” might be related to Russia | Photo: Getty
For Snowden, however, the matter “is more a matter of diplomacy intelligence”
“Filtration is a warning that someone. is able to demonstrate the responsibility of the United States of any malware attack that originated from that server, “said exanalista via Twitter.
according to Snowden, the alleged” hacking “of NSA “could have important implications for foreign policy (US)”.
the cryptographer Bruce Schneier agrees and says that the fact that the stolen files are dated 2013 is what “suggests that it is a matter of Russian intelligence.”
the NSA has not yet ruled on the matter. Nor it has the Russian government.
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