Shadow Brokers Announce Hack-of-the-Month Club

May 17, 2017

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The Shadow Brokers hacking group is exploring a subscription-based model for selling network vulnerabilities and other exploits to whoever is willing to pay for whatever purpose.

“Is being like wine of month club,” the group’s blog post said. “What members doing with data after is up to members.”

The group previously released the vulnerability that allowed the WannaCry ransomware to spread across the globe and last year held an unsuccessful auction for National Security Agency tools before trying other methods of selling them.

The “warez” the group is peddling for its subscription include exploits for web browsers, routers, mobile phones and Windows 10 operating system and compromised network data from SWIFT banking services and various countries’ missile programs, according to the blog post.

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