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Wednesday August 17, 2016
The auctioned by millions
The National Security Agency US (NSA), which jumped to the fore worldwide in 2013 after Edward Snowden revealed information about its espionage techniques, was the target of a leak Wednesday.
a mysterious call themselves hackers “Shadow brokers” leaked on internet as It appears to be a secret NSA computer code.
Several security experts told US media that the code seems genuine, and Snowden said “circumstantial evidence” pointing to the participation of Russia.
On Wednesday, the spy agency had not yet responded to several requests for comment.
Hackers posted on the internet weekend two groups of files, one that is free and the other is encrypted.
The “Shadow Brokers” said disclose information of the second group if they get 1 million digital -Coin bitcoins, in this case the approximate equivalent of 575 million dollars through an online auction.
According to The New York Times, much of the code was created to break through computer firewalls foreign powers such as Russia, China and Iran.
This access would allow the NSA to introduce malware into systems rivals and attack-or even monitor their networks.
The one who received the code must be entered NSA servers that store files, the Times said.
The excontratista NSA Snowden, who has been living in Russia since leaked documents revealed the extent of surveillance that made the agency of private data, said the leak could be a warning to States States after the campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton accused Moscow of pirating emails Democratic party.
hackers leaked some of the “most powerful surveillance tools” created by a “select division “NSA.
Shadow auctioned Brokers said that” the best files to the highest bidder. “
According to the Washington Post, a former NSA employee, whose identity was reservada- who worked in the unit Operations Adapted access (TAO, for its acronym in English), said that this leak “could undermine the security of several governments and major corporations, both local and foreign”.
a second worker quoted by the US newspaper that saw the file said: “from what I saw, there is no doubt that it is legitimate.”
The file contains 300 megabytes of information, including several “exploits” (as it is called to certain pieces of software that exploit system vulnerabilities to get something) and Aseri implant that could modify existing information systems hacking.
Many of the exploits were pieces of computer code that took advantage of flaws previously unknown or vulnerabilities in firewalls, which until now were not arranged, said one of the former hackers NSA.
file disclosure implies that at least the other hand, possibly a spy agency of other country has had access to the same tools used by the NSA hacking and could deploy against organizations using routers and firewalls . vulnerable
Until Wednesday, the NSA did not issue statements about
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