On the Wire Podcast: Rick Holland on the Shadow Brokers
The release by a group called Shadow Brokers of a massive amount of tools, vulnerabilities, and exploits apparently used by the Equation Group hacking team linked to the NSA has set the security industry buzzing and raised a number of questions about government surveillance, security, and foreign policy. Dennis Fisher talks with Rick Holland of […]
Cisco Warns of Firewall 0-Day From Shadow Brokers Dump
The fallout from the release of a huge toolset believed to have been used by a team of NSA-linked hackers continues, as vendors have begun releasing advisories about some of the vulnerabilities exposed in the Equation Group files. Cisco is among the first companies to warn customers about bugs in their products, specifically a high-severity […]
Researchers Find Strong Ties Between Equation Group Tools and Shadow Brokers Dump
The researchers who originally uncovered the Equation Group, a hacking team strongly believed to be tied to the NSA, says that the trove of offensive tools, exploits, and files apparently stolen from that group and dumped online this week has a “strong connection” to the Equation Group’s known toolsets. An anonymous group calling itself the Shadow […]