Basically Shadowbrokers claimed to hack the NSA with a datadump of the NSA's hacking tools. They offered a bounty for it and nobody took it Eventually they rel

Basically Shadowbrokers claimed to hack the NSA with a datadump of the NSA's hacking tools. They offered a bounty for it and nobody took it Eventually they released a sample which contained real exploits with unheard of vulnerabilities A few weeks later the Wanna-Cry ransomware had weaponized those vulnerabilities and spread world wide really quickly, attracting way too much attention and a fix rolled out The attention revealed that the exploit had been weaponized almost immediately a few weeks earlier for a very smart and stealthy Monero mining botnet, which made way more than Wannacry did People still use the leaked NSA exploits to hack computers and run Monero botnets. https://cointelegraph.com/news/newly-detected-malware-uses-nsa-exploit-to-mine-monero-over-500k-pcs-infected https://cointelegraph.com/news/newly-detected-malware-uses-n... yes, we've all heard misinformation about bitcoin being untrackable, but Monero is the real deal for now, with the pros and cons and possible attack vectors researched and published about