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 is a "fully scalable remote data collection system" accompanied by a series of "add-ons", allowing attackers to gain full control of their targeted Windows computers.
In her latest publication, team announced some changes to the monthly leaks service.
Specifically, the September leakage tools also includes an unencrypted one archive PDF, which is a user manual for UNITEDRAKE (United Rake) a exploit developed by the NSA.
Σύμφωνα με το εγχειρίδιο χρήσης που διέρρευσε, το UNITEDRAKE είναι ένα προσαρμοσμένο αρθρωτό κακόβουλο λογισμικό που διαθέτει τη δυνατότητα να συλλέγει data from camera και το μικρόφωνο, από το keyboard, and gain access to external drives and other external devices in order to spy on its targets.
Η κακόβουλη εφαρμογή μπορεί να πάρει plug-ins που επιτρέπουν την επέκταση των capabilities her.
The tool UNITEDRAKE we had heard 2014 for the first time from the NSA classified 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 meant to secretly gain control of the computer's camera and shoot photos
FOGGYBOTTOM to obtain Internet data such as browsing history, data login 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 group demanded 100 ZEC when it started its first monthly tool leak in June, but now the hackers are reportedly demanding 16.000 ZEC (the total value is $3.914.080) for all NSA tools. Zcash is currently trading at $248 per unit.
Those who want to access only malware released in September will have to pay 500 ZEC.