📅 - Recently, a group calling themselves the ShadowBrokers released two dossiers to the online world. One is up for anybody to take, while the other is locked and up for auction. These files contain techniques and tools used to hack into computers and files coming from 2013 from the NSA.
Some believe the Equation Group is responsible for the leak, while others say it might be the NSA itself. Cybersecurity analysts are looking into the leak to figure out if it poses any type of threat to the national security of the United States.
Suspects include countries, such as China and Russia, even though they have both repeatedly denied the accusation's. It could also be a former or current NSA worker.
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