Category: shadow brokers

NSA contractor sentenced to nine years over theft of classified info

Post author By Randall
Post date July 20, 2019
Categories In cia, cyber command, gear, harold martin, leak, nsa, Security, shadow brokers, Tech

[ad_1] In 2016, federal agents arrested NSA contractor Harold Martin for stealing up to 50TB of classified information, and reports claimed that included offensive hacking technology designed to break into foreign computer networks. Sources for the data he took included the NSA, CIA and US Cyber Command over two decades between 1996 and 2016. On […]

Chinese spies may have fed stolen NSA tools to Wannacry creators

Post author By Randall
Post date May 7, 2019
Categories In gear, Security, shadow brokers, symantec, Tech, wannacry

[ad_1] Symantec has found that the Buckeye group — its codename for a Guangzhou-based contractor for the Chinese Ministry of State Security — has been using the stolen NSA tools at least a year before the Shadow Brokers leak. The software security firm believes that Buckeye captured the tools during an NSA attack and then […]