The Shadow Brokers, a team that leaked many of the NSA's hacking tools, once again launched a new tool used by NSA agents, but only for subscribers of "monthly dumps."
The new tool is called UNITEDRAKE, and it is a “fully scalable remote collectiondata” that comes with a series of “plugins”, allowing attackers to gain complete control over targeted Windows computers.
In its latest release, the team announced some changes to the monthly leakage service.
Specifically, the September leakage tools also includes an unencrypted file PDF, which is a user manual for UNITEDRAKE (United Rake) a exploit developed by the NSA.
According to the leaked user manual, UNITEDDRAKE is a custom modular malware that has the ability to collect data from the camera and microphone, from the keyboard, and access external drives and other external Appliances, in order to spy on his targets.
The malicious application can get plug-ins that allow it to expand its capabilities.
The tool UNITEDRAKE we first heard about it in 2014 from the classified NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
Snowden reports that the US intelligence service has used the tool along with other tools such as CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE, GUMFISH, FOGGYBOTTOM, GROK and SALVAGERABBIT to infect millions of computers around the world.
CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE is for recording conversations via the microphone of the infected computer
GUMFISH is intended to gain secret control of the camera and capture photos
The FOGGYBOTTOM for her acquisition Internet data such as browsing history, login details and passwords
GROK is a Trojan Keylogger for typing keystrokes.
SALVAGERABBIT is for accessing removable flash drive data that connects to the infected computer.
Shadow Brokers report that they are now accepting payments only in ZCash (ZEC) from their monthly subscribers rather than Monero. The team is asking for nearly 4 million dollars to deliver the whole NSA arsenal.
The team demanded 100 ZEC when it launched its first monthly tool leak in June, but hackers are now claiming to require 16.000 ZEC (the total value is at 3.914.080 dollars) for all NSA tools. Zcash is currently trading at 248 dollars per unit.
Those who want to access only malware released in September will have to pay 500 ZEC.
