NSA-Linked Hackers Raise Price Of Monthly Subscription to $61,000 After Tuesday’s Cyberattack

In the wake of Tuesday’s massive global ransomware attack, the hacker group called the Shadow Brokers is again trying to capitalize on its reputation as a source of leaked NSA hacking exploits, saying it will up the price of a subscription service launched earlier this month, while also introducing a new ‘premium’ feature.
The group introduced a monthly subscription service following last month’s WannaCry attack, after initially trying to sell its entire cache of NSA-funded cyberweapons for a staggering one million bitcoin (worth $2.5 billion at current prices). Both WannaCry and Tuesday’s attack, which has been blamed on the ‘Goldeneye’ strain of the ‘Petya’ ransomware, were aided by exploits that the Shadowbrokers allegedly stole from an NSA special-ops crew called ‘the Equation Group.’
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This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 29, 2017.