What remains unknown is how the Shadow Brokers came about the malware dump in the first place.
#NSA HACKING TOOLS LEAKED UPDATE#
(In the unlikely event that this changes, we'll update the piece.) Data from Shodan, a service for finding information about internet-connected devices. It's impossible to tell who is behind the hacks. We put in a question to an NSA spokesperson, but didn't hear back at the time of writing. Related: NSA's powerful Windows hacking tools leaked online. That string, "ace02468bdf13579," was found in a number of leaked programs, including one dubbed SECONDDATE, which is described as a tool "designed to intercept web requests and redirect browsers on target computers to an NSA web server." One of top-secret slide decks used by the intelligence agency instructs NSA hackers to track how they use one of the malware "weapons" using a 16-character string. The Intercept, which still has a copy of unreported Snowden documents, reported Friday on what it believes is the smoking gun that connects the two. The National Security Agency (NSA) announced this week that several top secret hacking tools & scripts they had created to exploit unknown flaws in the Micro. If source code gets into the wrong hands, the damage would be incalculable. US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code