Breached a server where zero-days accumulated by Equation Group were held, leaked a large section on the internet and tried to sell the rest afterward. Most of the published vulnerabilities have since been fixed by the respective vendors, but many have been used by other threat actors. Most notably among the dumps were zero-days such as ETERNALBLUE that were used for the creation of infamous ransomware explosions such as WannaCry and NotPetya. Shadow Brokers turned out to be an ex-NSA contractor.
The National Security Agency (NSA) has revived its elite hacking unit, formerly known as TAO (Tailored Access Operations), as part of a reorganization aimed at bolstering its capabilities against evolving cyber threats f…
