Researchers may have found a link between Moonlight Maze of the late ’90s and the Turla APT, which would elevate Turla to the ranks of the Equation Group as an elite nation-state attacker.

The ShadowBrokers today ended their operations, saying they would no longer leak Equation Group exploits.

The ShadowBrokers are selling a cache of Windows exploits and attack tools for 750 Bitcoin.

The Shadowbrokers dumped lists of hacked servers compromised by the Equation Group and allegedly used in its campaigns.

Cisco has issued an advisory warning its customers that products running its IOS software are vulnerable to attacks disclosed by the ShadowBrokers

After a summer of high-profile attacks and disclosures centered around enterprise network infrastructure, the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday put out an alert explaining some of the tactics used by advanced attackers, and urged special caution in maintaining supply chain integrity. The warning to network operators, in particular aimed at those managing Cisco gear, comes...

Cisco today began the process of patching a zero-day vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software exposed in the ShadowBrokers data dump. Users on affected versions of ASA, 7.2, and 8.0 through 8.7, are urged to migrate soon to 9.1.7(9) or later. Newer versions that are also implicated—9.1 through 9.6—are expected to be updated...

Exploits against enterprise-grade Cisco firewalls dumped by the ShadowBrokers have quickly—and apparently without a lot of strenuous effort—been upgraded to attack more current versions of ASA. Researchers at Silent Signal in Hungary yesterday tweeted they had ported the EXTRABACON attack to ASA version 9.2(4), which was released a year ago. We successfully ported EXTRABACON to...

Juniper Networks on Friday acknowledged that exploits contained in the ShadowBrokers data dump do indeed target its products. “As part of our analysis of these files, we identified an attack against NetScreen devices running ScreenOS,” said Derrick Scholl, director of security incident response at Juniper. “We are examining the extent of the attack, but initial analysis...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Shadow Brokers debacle, the VeraCrypt audit, Pokemon ransomware, and a browser address bar vulnerability. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_August_19_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves