Although past auctions and sales have not gone well, the Shadow Brokers are trying once again to get someone -- anyone -- to give them money for the trove of NSA cyberweapons the group claims to have and the damage from WannaCry has IT professionals crowdsourcing to pay.

If all goes according to plan, a monthly Shadow Brokers dump of vulnerabilities and exploits will be released to anyone who pays the $20,000 price tag. The group said this high cost is intended to only attract "high rollers, hackers, security companies, OEMs, and governments." The group is asking for payment in Zcash, an anonymous cryptocurrency with more privacy than Bitcoin, and the first Shadow Brokers dump is scheduled to be released between June 1 and June 17.

Experts fear future subscription-based Shadow Brokers dumps because of the extent of the damage caused by WannaCry and how the ransomware highlighted the large number of systems vulnerable to the EternalBlue exploit from the NSA cyberweapons stockpile.

Csaba Krasznay, product evangelist at Balabit, a security company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, said "the whole situation is really scary" because the next Shadow Brokers dump could lead to another WannaCry.

"Whatever the truth is, it is clear now that the governments should handle their cyberweapons in ways similar to the handling of their weapons of mass destruction," Krasznay told SearchSecurity. "Otherwise, perhaps a disgruntled privileged administrator might steal one or perhaps someone may simply forget to delete it after use in an operation. Those codes shouldn't get to a Shadow Brokers-like group, and this is a governmental responsibility."

Mounir Hahad, senior director at Cyphort Labs, said because it appears the NSA is aware of what was stolen and may have begun notifying vendors, the Shadow Brokers are more likely to provide dangerous exploits.

"The Shadow Brokers cannot make random claims of having additional cyberweapons without risking being called on it, so they will likely only talk about what they truly have," Hahad told SearchSecurity. "My concern would be with rogue entities like cybercrime groups, which now would have a more affordable access to weapons of choice. Some not-so-well funded foreign governments may dip their toes in as well."