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Shadow Brokers Launches 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions for $21,000 Per Month

Unsurprisingly, the hacking group behind the release of NSA secrets which led to the WannaCry ransomware attack, Shadow Brokers, now plans to provide zero day exploits as a subscription service.  It can be had for $21,000 per month.  While ransomware can be lucrative for criminals, WannaCry did not net huge profits for the attackers.  It did, however, wreak havoc on unpatched computer systems which were susceptible to a vulnerability in SMBv1, namely Britain's National Health Service.

 

To subscribe to the service, the group is using the cryptocurrency Zcash which claims to be more anonymous than Bitcoin.  The group promises to release new Zero Days every month as part of the service.  This was bound to happen.  Once criminals realize how lucrative these exploits can be, this is the logical next step.

Edited by Michael McAllister
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As sad as it is to say, that's actually pretty cheap for the going cost of Zero-Days. Most of the major players are paying between 100k and 500k for Zero Days.

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And The Shadow Brokers are only doing this because nobody, or nobody they preferred, chose to buy the bulk CIA hacking tool arsenal that they had been trying to sell for for a long time. It was 750 BTC for the entire package, which really isn't a lot to a government, or for what they'd get. If Russia, or anyone else was truly interested in seriously hacking the USA, they would have bought that up instantly.

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