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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
2018-10-19Kaspersky LabsAndrey Dolgushev, Dmitry Tarakanov, Vasily Berdnikov
DarkPulsar
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2017-11-27BlacklakeBrian Krebs
WHO WAS THE NSA CONTRACTOR ARRESTED FOR LEAKING THE ‘SHADOW BROKERS’ HACKING TOOLS?
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2017-09-07HackReadAhmed Waqas
New NSA Data Dump: ShadowBrokers Release UNITEDRAKE Malware
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2017-09-06SecurityAffairsPierluigi Paganini
ShadowBrokers are back demanding nearly $4m and offering 2 dumps per month
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2017-04-18CyberScoopChris Bing
Shadow Brokers leaks show U.S. spies successfully hacked Russian, Iranian targets
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2017-04-17CSO OnlineMichael Kan
New NSA leak may expose its bank spying, Windows exploits
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2017-04-10ThreatpostMichael Mimoso
ShadowBrokers Dump More Equation Group Hacks, Auction File Password
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2016-10-31SC Magazine UKRoi Perez
Second Shadow Brokers dump released
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2016-10-01Vice MotherboardJanus Rose
‘Shadow Brokers’ Whine That Nobody Is Buying Their Hacked NSA Files
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2016-08-18WikipediaVarious
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2016-08-16Mustafa Al-Bassam
Equation Group firewall operations catalogue
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Credits: MISP Project