Shadow Brokers rant about people wanting stolen NSA-linked hacking tools for free
The hacking group trying to auction off NSA-linked Equation Group hacking tools is unhappy because no one has coughed up the big bucks yet to buy the exploits. On Saturday, the Shadow Brokers took to Medium to release the group’s third message. The hackers sound hurt that people don’t trust them and – if cursing is any indication – the hackers are angry that the Equation Group cyber weapons auction has flopped so far.
The Shadow Brokers want $1 million dollars and sound irritated that interested parties want the stolen hacking tools for free. “Peoples is having interest in free files. But people is no interest in #EQGRP_Auction.”
Although the writing style is likely to throw analysts off the track of determining who wrote Shadow Brokers’ messages, the allegedly forced broken English gets annoying fast even if you aren’t a grammar Nazi. That might partially be why the group’s second message was basically ignored by the media; however, it did mention a bid of 1.5 bitcoins which is currently worth about $915. The blockchain info shows a measly 1.761821 bitcoins received in total – which was worth $1,073.85 at the time of publishing.
