Earlier yesterday it was reported that the notorious Shadow Brokers hacking group is selling hacking tools which can be used to hack Windows-based devices. Now, it may come as a surprise the group has suddenly decided to quit their operation and give away some of the stolen Windows hacking tools for free.

In a goodbye note on their website, the hackers revealed that they are going dark because it was all about money (in their case bitcoin) and since they could not get enough Bitcoin, they have decided to quit. However, the bitcoin address of the group is still active and in case they receive 10,000 BTC they vow to come back and dump passwords for Linux and Windows.

At the same time, the group wants to sell some Windows hacking tools for a sum of 750 BTC which seems like a desperate move before vanishing into the dark world of Internet. The analysis of those tools is available at Heimdal Security’s blog post.

https://twitter.com/shadowbrokerss/status/819537298245218304

Here is a list of hacking tools that are being sold by the group:

UtBu – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

ST1.14 – DanderSpritz Backdoor – 25.0 BTC

Pacu – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Dark Skyline – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Demi – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Tedi – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

LegacyWindowsExploits – DanderSpritz Exploits – 25.0 BTC

Zbng – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Pc – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

SCRE – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Df – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Dsky – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Gath – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

DAPU – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

EP – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

DanderSpritz Base – DanderSpritz LP Only – 25.0 BTC

GrDo – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

GeZu – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

StLa – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Pfre – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

DanderSpritz All – DanderSpritz Everything – 250.0 BTC

DmGz – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

GrCl – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

Grok – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

PC2.2 – DanderSpritz RAT – 25.0 BTC

Flav – DanderSpritz Plugin – 10.0 BTC

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Shadow Brokers made the news in August 2016 by stealing hacking and security tools from reportedly NSA’s sponsored Equation Group, another notorious group of hackers defined by Kaspersky researcher as “the most advanced … we have seen.” As far as the Shadow Brokers are concerned, good luck to them.

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