Last week, an anonymous group calling itself the Shadow Brokers leaked a bunch of National Security Agency hacking tools. Whoever they are, the Shadow Brokers say they still have more data to dump. But the preview has already unleashed some notable vulnerabilities, complete with tips for how to use them.
All of which means anyone—curious kids, petty criminals, trolls—can now start hacking like a spy. And it looks like they are.
Curious to learn if anyone was indeed trying to take advantage of the leak, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt—a security researcher at NYU—set up a honeypot. On August 18 he tossed out a digital lure that masqueraded as a system containing one of the vulnerabilities. Within 24 hours Dolan-Gavitt saw someone trying to exploit the vulnerability, with a few attempts every day since.
Companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Fortigate, which had products affected by the Shadow Brokers leak, scrambled for days to patch the bugs or offer workarounds. But even if a patch exists, people have to install it.
— source wired.com
So its better not to use electronic equipments and mobile phones from american companies.
NSA using US tax payer money to develop tools to hack them. Its treason. Dissolve NSA.