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This is what happens when spambot skiddies accidentally acquire a treasure-trove of NSA tools via a C2 server they have pwned. They failed to sell ('broker') th
by nthcolumn 9y ago
This is what happens when spambot skiddies accidentally acquire a treasure-trove of NSA tools via a C2 server they have pwned. They failed to sell ('broker') them as nobody was stupid enough to touch them, they failed to blackmail with them (omg what a bad move), then they failed to weaponise their own gear with them (wcry 1.0 in February), and even though wcry 2.0 is widespread and very disruptive, really they failed again only making 50k out of how many infections? They have only 3 bitcoin addresses making it obvious nobody is getting decrypted (how do they know who has paid?) or there is a single master key which will be found soon, their sandbox detector is a killswitch. Larry, Moh and Curly have invited a world of pain upon themselves - as well as probably killing people on NHS - they also infected Moscow Police - so FSB too.
Definitely, would not like to be them.
- 21 9y agoA bunch of articles, even Snowden, argued that it's very likely that the NSA tools were stolen by the Russians. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765514891813945344 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765514891813945344
- ChuckMcM 9y agoAnd given the indications about how hard various Russian infrastructure was hit, that would be ironic. Of course, if you were a nation state and you wanted to attack an adversary but you knew that if you did you would get blowback, you might "lose" some tools that you knew some script kiddies would be able to weaponize. Interesting times indeed.