The Washington Post | By: Brian Fung | May 16 2017:
The hacking group that leaked the bugs that enabled last week’s global ransomware attack is threatening to make public even more computer vulnerabilities in the coming weeks — potentially including “compromised network data” pertaining to the nuclear or missile programs of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as vulnerabilities affecting Windows 10, which is run by millions of computers worldwide.
A spokesperson for the group, which calls itself the Shadow Brokers, claimed in a blog post Tuesday that some of those computer bugs may be released on a monthly basis as part of a new subscription-based business model that attempts to mimic what has proved successful for companies such as Spotify, Netflix, Blue Apron and many more.
“Is being like wine of month club,” read the blog post, which is written in broken English. “Each month peoples can be paying membership fee, then getting members only data dump each month.”
The move shows the growing commercial sophistication of groups such as the Shadow Brokers, which already has demonstrated a fearsome technical ability to compromise the world’s top intelligence agencies. And it underscores the way much of the underground trade for computer bugs resembles a real-world commercial market.
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