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Shadow Brokers Threaten to Expose Identity of Former NSA Hacker

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

The Shadow Brokers have published a new message today, gloating about the damage caused by the NotPetya ransomware, and threatening to expose the real-life identity of an alleged NSA employee, who they say has been mocking the group on Twitter.

In their message, the group also boasted about having “many many subscribers” to their monthly data dump service, which they started earlier this month.

 

Read more on BleepingComputer.

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