United States of America leading one of the largest and sophisticated cyber intelligence agency in the name of NSA. Few days back a hacker group claimed to hack the #Equation Group - Cyber attack division of NSA. Recently the data and private tools has been leaked online.
It is claimed by the hacker group #The Shadow Brokers that they have hacked the Equation Group and gained many private hacking tools used by the agency.
Some of the exploits are published online and some security researchers considers the exploits to be legitimate and the group #The Shadow Brokers claims 1 Million bitcoins (568 Million USD) to dump the entire tools which includes installation scripts, exploits for famous vendor products such as Cisco and Firewall and so on.
There is a news in the past that this Equation Group is responsible for Stuxnet attack but is not proved and the hackers claims that #Topsec, Chinese company is also target of Equation Group.
Some security researchers also claims that some of the code names relates to the documents leaked by the whistleblower #Edward snowden such as #BANANAGLEE and #EPICBANANA.
The breach is not yet confirmed and there is a news that it may be a well organized hoax to gain Bitcoin in large amount and also to gain media attention. If this is proved, it will be historical hack in cyber history.
P.S: The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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