It’s clear, though, whoever these perpetrators want the world to at least think they’re chaos-loving super villains in the vein of Tyler Durden or the Joker (Heath Ledger version, of course). This could all be circumstantial, a false flag, aliens, or a host of other possibilities. Hugo Strange attempts to auction off the Dark Knight’s identity to his rogue’s gallery. Evil.Īnd the scheme itself is an obvious plot heist of a Batman: The Animated Series episode, where Dr.

The 1 million bitcoin request? That’s straight up Dr. politicians attributing the DNC hacks to the Russians.ĩ) This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server. He also speculates the data leak has to do with U.S.

16, NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden tweeted, “Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility.' Rocky Balboa is your firewall, and Ivan 'I Must Break You' Drago is the Russian Hacker exploit. It is possible that the Shadow Brokers are huge fans of Ivan Drago, as the syntax and vocabulary indicate. Many assume them to be Russian, because evidently society has finally caught up to pandering ’80s movie tropes. You bid against Equation Group, win and find out or bid pump price up, piss them off, everyone wins.' We want Equation Group to bid so we keep secret. Those best files, the brokers tease, are “better than stuxnet,” the (allegedly) U.S./Israeli-created malware that ravaged Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility’s centrifuge and accidentally broke free of containment.Īnd if the bidding war raises 1 million bitcoin ($550 million U.S), more harmful files – supposedly on par with the current leak - will be made public.Īt this point, the unreleased files could contain an Oregon Trail emulator, or a CryptoLocker weapon that could cripple the world’s financial system. But not all, we are auction the best files.' “The stuff you’re talking about would undermine the security of a lot of major government and corporate networks both here and abroad.” “Without a doubt, they’re the keys to the kingdom,” a former NSA hacker, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Washington Post. The Russian-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab calls the Equation Group “a threat actor that surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques.”Īnd somehow these Shadow Brokers obtained at least some of their sophisticated cyber arsenal, which in the past includes flame, duqu, and stuxnet.

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