TheShadowBrokers Data Dump of the Month club – National Cyber Security Institute

Welcome to the TheShadowBrokers Data Dump of the Month

On May 15^th TheShadowBrokers group announced in a blog post that they were going to introduce a hack of the months club and compared it to a wine of the month type club. Where they will sell you a membership and you will get an unknown number and unknown type of exploits. It could be anything from web browser, router, and handset exploits and tools to compromised network data from North Korean nuke and missile programs.

On May 29^th the group Tweeted out a PGP singed message that tells you how to subscribe and pay and their price. The will be using ZEC (Zcash) for the transaction which is a new and supposedly more secure version of bit coin though they even admit they don’t necessarily trust it. The instructions are :

#1 – Between 06/01/2017 and 06/30/2017 send 100 ZEC (Zcash) to this z_address: zcaWeZ9j4DdBfZXQgHpBkyauHBtYKF7LnZvaYc4p86G7jGnVUq14KSxsnG mUp7Kh1Pgivcew1qZ64iEeG6vobt8wV2siJiq

#2 – Include a “delivery email address” in the “encrypted memo field” when sending Zcash payment

#3 – If #1 and #2 then a confirmation email will be sent to the “delivery email address” provided

#4 – Between 07/01/2017 and 07/17/2017 a “mass email” will be send to the “delivery email address” of all “confirmed subscribers” (#1, #2, #3)

#5 – The “mass email” will contain a link and a password for the June 2017 dump

The ZEC to USD is approximately at the time of writing 1 ZEC to US $235.71 on CoinGecko.com. So to join the club it will cost approximately us $23,571 for something that you don’t know what you are getting. This will obviously limit who gets first access to the tool since the average person doesn’t have thats sort of money laying around and even TheShadowBrokers admit this. They say in the PGP message that its for high rollers, hackers, security companies, OEMs, and governments.

So whats in it? Who knows but it will be interesting for sure when “thepeople” see what they have to lay bare to the world for such a steep price.

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