Posted on 04/10/2017 3:11:16 AM PDT by markomalley
Annoyed with the U.S. missile strike last week on an airfield in Syria, among other things, hacker group Shadow Brokers resurfaced on Saturday and released what they said was the password to files containing suspected National Security Agency tools they had earlier tried to sell.
“Is appearing you are abandoning ‘your base’, ‘the movement’, and the peoples who getting you elected,” the group wrote in broken English in a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump posted online on Saturday.
The hacker group, believed by some security experts to have Russian links, released in January an arsenal of tools that appeared designed to spy on Windows systems, after trying to to sell these and other supposedly Windows and Unix hacking tools for bitcoin.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
“good name for a band”
If this group had Russian links, why would they broadcast the password when it would have more valuable if peoeple didn’t know they had it. Another red scare....
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