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The Shadow Brokers  (Back to overview)

aka: Shadow Brokers, ShadowBrokers, TSB, The ShadowBrokers

The Shadow Brokers (TSB) is a hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016. They published several leaks containing hacking tools from the National Security Agency (NSA, including several zero-day exploits.[1] Specifically, these exploits and vulnerabilities targeted enterprise firewalls, antivirus software, and Microsoft products. The Shadow Brokers originally attributed the leaks to the Equation Group threat actor, who have been tied to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit.


Associated Families

There are currently no families associated with this actor.


References
2018-10-19 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Andrey Dolgushev, Dmitry Tarakanov, Vasily Berdnikov
DarkPulsar
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2017-11-27 ⋅ Blacklake ⋅ Brian Krebs
WHO WAS THE NSA CONTRACTOR ARRESTED FOR LEAKING THE ‘SHADOW BROKERS’ HACKING TOOLS?
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2017-09-07 ⋅ HackRead ⋅ Ahmed Waqas
New NSA Data Dump: ShadowBrokers Release UNITEDRAKE Malware
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2017-09-06 ⋅ SecurityAffairs ⋅ Pierluigi Paganini
ShadowBrokers are back demanding nearly $4m and offering 2 dumps per month
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2017-04-18 ⋅ CyberScoop ⋅ Chris Bing
Shadow Brokers leaks show U.S. spies successfully hacked Russian, Iranian targets
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2017-04-17 ⋅ CSO Online ⋅ Michael Kan
New NSA leak may expose its bank spying, Windows exploits
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2017-04-10 ⋅ Threatpost ⋅ Michael Mimoso
ShadowBrokers Dump More Equation Group Hacks, Auction File Password
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2016-10-31 ⋅ SC Magazine UK ⋅ Roi Perez
Second Shadow Brokers dump released
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2016-10-01 ⋅ Vice Motherboard ⋅ Janus Rose
‘Shadow Brokers’ Whine That Nobody Is Buying Their Hacked NSA Files
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2016-08-18 ⋅ Wikipedia ⋅ Various
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2016-08-16 ⋅ Mustafa Al-Bassam
Equation Group firewall operations catalogue
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Credits: MISP Project