Shadow Brokers Calls It Quits After Failing To Get Buyers For NSA
     Exploits

     But group says it is still willing to dump its collection of Linux
     and Windows tools if it gets 10,000 bitcoins.
     1/12/2017

     Just days after offering for sale a database of Windows exploits
     allegedly purloined from an outfit thought to be affiliated with the
     National Security Agency (NSA), the infamous ShadowBrokers hacking
     crew has apparently decided to call it quits.
     As a parting gift, they released an archive of nearly five-dozen
     Windows hacking tools for free Thursday in an apparent last ditch
     effort to convince potential buyers of the authenticity of their
     goods.
     They also promised to come out of hiding and still release a
     collection of Linux and Windows exploits in their possession to
     anyone willing to pay the equivalent of slightly more than $8
     million (10,000 bitcoins at current rates) for it.
     In a parting note on the group’s website, the Shadow Brokers claimed
     the decision to go dark had to do entirely with money, or rather the
     fact they hadn’t made as much of it as expected from their hacking
     wares.
     The language in the note appeared almost deliberately contrived to
     make it seem as if members of the group are non-native English
     speakers. “Despite theories, it always being about bitcoins for
     TheShadowBrokers,” the note claimed. “Free dumps and bullshit
     political talk was being for marketing attention.”
     The farewell note expressed the group’s disappointment with their
     lack of success in finding buyers for attack tools they had tried to
     auction off last year and admonished people for not believing in the
     Shadow Brokers...

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References

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