Who Stole the NSA's Top Secret Hacking Tools?🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 53: Shadow Brokers

The NSA has a super secret catalog of sci-fi level cyber weapons. Then one day in 2016, someone started auctioning them off on Twitter.
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[@Ye4rZero]

The person who deserves real recognition is whoevers in charge of naming the NSA's tools. Deity bounce? Fkn awesome

[@schwingedeshaehers]

It is a program, that gives random name (but they often use more than one try)

[@theRPGmaster]

@@schwingedeshaehers That's classified. You've said too much.

[@schwingedeshaehers]

@@theRPGmaster it is at least public since Edward Snowden wrote it in his book.

[@famousartguymeme]

@@schwingedeshaehers public dosent mean de-classafied, please report to your nearest ODNI office for apprehension and impreseanmeant.

[@schwingedeshaehers]

@@famousartguymeme where do I find it? Do you take the cost to get there? Can I get immunity when entering the USA?

[@Mp-jw1qg]

In highschool, they took my internet access away on my account so i made a kernel level bootloader that would bypass the schools login system and would boot the native windows xp at the time. I was better at c++ than the teacher and often times i was just sitting in class playing counter strike 1.6. I found a vulnerability in the schools CISCO network and how it was tied in to AERIES software that the teachers used to keep grades. There was a default login and password that would allow me to get passed the firewall and into the actual login page. The school computer lab had a program that was essentially a key logger that would log the students typing assignments to judge accuracy of the students typing. I Found the master cd copy of that program with the master license one day and cloned it. I went and installed that program on the economics teachers pc and waited for him to login to ARIES. I logged in and changed everyones grades in ARIES and then logged into his user account wich as admin for the network and i turned my interent access back on and gave myself admin privelages. I only got caught because i was playing counter strike in class one day on the schools video editing pc and i was the only one who could have done it. I was young and stupid. I didnt get to graduate on stage and I lost my college scholarship because of it. I gave up programming and went to college for chemistry. I probably would have gotten in real trouble had i not matured and gave that stuff up.

[@dimi_95]

I love your story, hope everything worked out for you

[@laoso8776]

Why did you not go to school if you could do all that?

[@paganizonda1000ps]

Man everything came out because you played too much. Sad that you didnt study cs.

[@jacksparrow3490]

Those skills will come in handy when they turn off your digital money once the social credit score system hits.

[@ihakker1416]

Wtf I just freaked out reading this. This story is creepily similar to something I did And I also gave up programming and went to college for chemistry. Wtf

[@Yerbah]

Doing my coding final and saw this pop up. I did my first CTF this year. I have learned alot from this channel. Thank you for the community.

[@Ataraxia_Atom]

How was your first CTF? What have you been using to learn?

[@everythinggaming1536]

Same lol

[@ssimple-4621]

im in the same situation, doing my final paper on cyberattacks, hacking and security

[@Ataraxia_Atom]

@@brenndandeffendall6211 thank you for your reply, I've been doing the Advent of cyber which has been super fun after spending about 10 months teaching myself web development and JavaScript, I'll check out the guardian group forsure

[@7DuRd3n]

@@Ataraxia_Atom go to tryhackme man it is real good imo

[@byron2334]

People need to understand that literally the only difference between a government and a street gang is membership numbers.

[@playtester6635]

The difference between a State and a criminal gang is that the State is the gang that won

[@johnrodgers2171]

Ok let's go with having no government because anarchy would be fun

[@jaygin6518]

Nope

[@TwinTurboOnly]

No it’s being on the right side of the law lol. Those who make the rules. Break the rules.

[@imt3206]

@@johnrodgers2171 yes

[@arupball1505]

Your podcast is music to my ears , don't ever stop this series FREAKING "NEVER"

[@captain_hanzo]

When I first stumbled upon this channel I was like "yeah what is this gonna do for me when I listen to the podcast every other week" but man you put out so many banger episodes like this that are well worth listening again to. Either they're interesting/suspenseful/entertaining enough on their own or we know things now that put a couple episodes in another context retroactively.

[@Joe60459]

What episodes are you referring to that the perspective changed on?

[@captain_hanzo]

@@Joe60459 I wish I could think of a couple more episodes from the top of my head to illustrate my point but one I can think of instantly is the one with the FBI agent that investigated the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. The episode ends on the kinda grim, sobering note that if it were not for the unprofessional and (arguably) unnecessary secretive behavior/relationship between the FBI and CIA, the 9/11 perpetrators would have gotten under a lot more scrutiny before they even took flying lessons especially with the information the FBI agent from the episode unearthed). After the 20th anniversary of 9/11 there was a flood of new documentaries, essays, analyses and to me it is shocking how close the authorities actually were and how the new information corroborates what the agent in the episode tells. Makes the episode even more bone chilling and what happened seems to be in fact as grim and sobering as the FBI agent's retelling implied.

[@Rooot-username]

Same. Ended up binge listening lmao

[@valkyr1985swe]

Myself can't believe i just found this channel. Been listening to the podcast for years. Why haven't I found this before.

[@KenSherman]

16:00 _Resend/rescind the message. We have the capacity to do it..._ Yep, that sound like Biden.

[@horsied]

anyone who thinks the NSA isn’t on the offensive is insane. Cmon, we all know the best defense is offense…

[@TomTom-gx1sm]

Of course they are war of tomorrow will be drones vs drones & taking over the network / hijacking those drones...

[@Electron42]

Thanks Patriot Act!

[@justcallmetruman]

I don't consider them on the side of the us citizens that's for sure

[@Stopinvadingmyhardware]

I bet they are offended. Those losers.

[@rxsk]

Best offense is defense.

[@oldgoat8861]

These episodes/stories are fantastic to listen to. Reminds me of early 70's Documentaries and interviews....but....This guy believe it or not is better. He expands beyond the content and establishes a base layer, then delves deeper.

[@ehoffmann47]

Dirty grandpa. Prerty spot on. We should've listened to them.....

[@meepk633]

Almost like you're the easily manipulated target they had in mind.

[@BirdsTheWurd]

The information and the way it's presented on this channel is very impressive and compelling to say the least. Well done

[@gregh7457]

i had a nightmare the other night that quantum computers had finally cracked all encryption and all the bad actors had sprung into action decrypting all the encrypted data they had collected and stored for years

[@DgarciaA-hj8qc]

Fuck man interesting?

[@DgarciaA-hj8qc]

Eventually that's what gonna happen or it already has happend it's just a matter of timing when all the nukes launch

[@bryceburns429]

Never correct your enemies when they are making a mistake 😊

[@vyrenpevo979]

This is the second best pod I've picked up this year. Binged every ep over the last few week. Great work, Jack. Keep it up!

[@johnstuckaiii]

What's the other one (please) ?

[@vyrenpevo979]

@@johnstuckaiii Hehe. Conan Needs A Friend.

[@juandager5220]

Sounds like the old Get Smart joke...

[@msergio0293]

​@@johnstuckaiii A man of culture

[@shadowuaw-0001]

Always Christmas, when a new episode drops. Keep up the great work Jack!

[@gh0stm0nst3r6]

I listen to this on Google Podcasts when showering. There's soooooo much more on here. OMG this is so great. Thank you so much Jack! Subbed, Liked, and Shared up!

[@mxcollin95]

New to the channel and am absolutely loving it! I’m definitely learning a lot too as I have no computer nerd skills to speak of but I’m learning! 🤙

[@mashmasho]

This podcast is fantastic. I’ve learned so much!

[@issamelarmi]

Just tumbled randomly upon the channel and i got to say, i love this

[@baineking271]

One of the best podcast ever. Keep it up!

[@tdbla98]

This is my fave episode by far. Great stuff man

[@Caurnots]

My favorite podcast by far. There are some amazing stories!

[@F3PIZZA]

Oh, Jachary. Outstanding content. Thank you, dude. 😊

[@ttmilk6633]

Went to my first B-Sides! Thanks Jack for letting me know about them!

[@jayredbeard7433]

Love this stuff. Keep 'em coming.

[@aetherwizard3218]

Oh no you were right the first time. the NSA certainly sees every single member of the public as their enemy.

[@meepk633]

This is just silly. It doesn't even make sense on a practical level. You've never been coerced by the NSA to do anything in your entire life. You never will. You'll probably never interact with them in any way. I know it's fun to imagine that you are some oppressed freedom fighter, but you aren't. You're a citizen in a democratic country with remarkably low corruption.

[@HecTechFPV]

New TEMPEST exploits are being found all the time, the other week I was reading about malware that used the sata cables as a rf transmitter to pipe out.

[@guruoo]

Got lucky, and caught a deal on the whole set of NSA tools on markdown day at Goodwill.

[@veramae4098]

You funny.

[@ScottCalvinsClause]

God! I can't believe the rate at which you upload such quality

[@bbertsamson8118]

It's awsome, i'v binge watch all of his work so fast and he's still able to provide more exciting testimonies My 2022 crush for sure

[@Pendoza84]

This was a good one. Super relatable too.. Keep it up!

[@tonyzone8999]

I’m going to have to tip my hat. Absolutely brilliant stuff. A lot of this is 100% unavoidable.

[@LordJackass]

I couldn't stop thinking about the Jaboody Dubs dumps skit when you mentioned the broker dumps. Very interesting podcast ya got here though, genuinely.

[@dronefish9629]

I came here a year later to listen again. My favourite podcast ever, I think.

[@Lei_Wong]

Great episode Jack,... as always

[@chadyonfire7878]

This is crazy content man . Thx wish u more support

[@savagepro9060]

0:05 " . . . one such news story I SAW, was some security news I HEARD . . ."

[@brainiacrawkib8135]

Thanks Jack, pls can you share a link to the Advance Network Tools catalogue. Will like to read more on that

[@FRM101]

'Rendition' Security. 😂 I like this guy already.

[@fatalinsomn1a182]

Certain groups really need both isolated internal networks with physical transfer of information, and also some completely invisible hardware logging tools. Also you should use linguistic analysis, and look for many unrelated clues to find a common trend to defeat diversion tactics.

[@wizardmack3551]

Your wrap up at the end of this episode should have been at the start,, it would have helped clarify some issues. Thanks again for all your hard work!!!

[@benruniko]

Wow I remember manipulating pretend logs as a kid in the Uplink game. Little did I know that would someday be possible!

[@jtw-r]

“infosec dumpster fire putter-outer” 😂😂

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

The last couple of years prior to my seperation/retirement from the Gov., CISO was implemented. In a nutshell, a low leverl hacker could negotiate and or hack the system and eventually, IOT's assistance or corrective action was ZERO.

[@jonnyphenomenon]

TEMPEST (transient electroMagnetic pulse emanation surveillance technology) was a surveillance tech that could sniff the data sent over a vga cable to a targets monitor from hundreds of feet away. If the target has a vga cable without ferrite beads on the ends, these signals are incredibly strong. The system just amplified the signal and displayed it on the viewers screen where they could sit and watch from a van down the block (with a directional antenna aimed at the intended target).

[@MAX-nv6yj]

On its time I just finish day 6 quest AoC Let’s just watch this amazing content😍❤❤❤

[@digiworld1212]

Keep it up the great work.

[@jowb-wf5tg]

shadow brokers would be watching this video for sure🤣

[@martinprochazka9192]

😂😂

[@itsmmdoha]

Love this Jack!

[@TheStringBreaker]

*Phenomenal episode!*

[@imnotahippie22]

The majority of Government doesn't prevent attacks. They sit by as they happen and swoop in to point the finger at who did it. In my opinion

[@n0madfernan257]

kinda reminds me that ww2 an attack message was intercepted before pearl harbor was bomb so they can announce retaliation

[@nancysmith2389]

Better than not knowing. Like now. Hee hee hee.

[@meepk633]

I love to make vapid guesses based on nothing but anti-establishment word association. In my opinion.

[@Coderdawg]

I just found your channel. It’s bad ass!!!

[@Obsessed.garage]

Thanks for sharing the story. May I ask why in the video brokers only has one “s”?

[@HazyJ28]

How is it 2023 and the public has never seen wireless VGA or HDMI. How come we're always 10-20 years behind the government, Im tired of it. Intel WiDi and MIRACAST (basically just WiFi direct) doesn't cut it.

[@DudeAndDogsSailing]

I have been awful about 👍 all these amazing interviews. Shucks...guess i just have to watch them all again.

[@bdubspoe]

love your content. commenting for the support. thanks

[@frankjohnson8750]

All these hacks seem to make computer networks useless 😐

[@oodles86]

Cool. Some of this parallels with what I've been reading in Sandworm lately.

[@sandworm9528]

Great book 😂

[@oodles86]

@@sandworm9528 must've really impacted you haha

[@daxramdac7194]

I'm sure a lot of the hardware and software they've made is fairly impressive. But breaking into a targets hotel room, especially when they have complete clearance to do so, I mean it's pretty easy when you have that kind of power. At that point, the tools create themselves.

[@keithp6054]

What if the equation released the tools as a way to publicly hack certain groups while giving cover by claiming those tools were used by an "opposition" group?

[@daneanderson737]

True

[@AnnieNelson-wo6bm]

That does not explain why they are terrorizing me with it I've done nothing to no one

[@LuigiMordelAlaume]

This is the #1 argument against governments wanting backdoors, like the apple phone encryption and end-to-end messengers

[@janinegarverick5642]

That's awesome people are catching on

[@johnfarmer3506]

How did Martin only get nine years? How did the FBI or why did the FBI not read Harold his rights during his initial arrest and confession?

[@rahulramteke3338]

Alternate title: NSA gets mogged by Shadow Brokers

[@slavaboggu]

Wow, not too far fetched of an idea to think this Jack guy is still working for nsa as a sheep dipped agent. Can’t think of a better way to gain access to highly sensitive equipment than a security consultant. Jeez, even the company name is suspicious - rendition security. One thing comes to mind for me is the rendition torture sites used by the us gov around the world. Scary stuff. Too bad the host didn’t bring this angle up.

[@goodknight4132]

Car telll

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

He didn't bring it up because hes trying to suck nuts to get in the club. I mean hes pushing russiagate bullshit.

[@DebianOchoa-mf4iv]

It certainly wouldn't be unheard of. It is well known that many of the deep state agencies pay influencers to move the publics opinión on the governments overreach.

[@oiuhwoechwe]

lol yeah. "let me just patch this router for you"....

[@tonyk438]

Yeah, and then just take anything the former NSA guy writes/says as possible disinformation. Possible false flag. Look at the targeting of Russia by mainstream media, especially since invasion of Ukraine.

[@Brye27]

All those programs about watching and listening, um do you have a suggestion of a program or app or something I could download to kick them out or trace them and find who all of them are

[@evanallen5377]

Man, that signoff... "don't hack like my brother" "and don't hack like my brothet"

[@smartwatchonpluto]

Snowden wasn't a privacy advocate, he was a spy.

[@travelinman70]

If event logs can be edit, then you can change events to point to someone else hacking in the system. Notice I didn't say "researching" the system. because let's be fair here "researchers" are hackers. If someone is researching exploits, they're hacking.

[@kevinalexander4959]

*cough* YOU KNOW NOTHING!

[@VitalTechnology_]

Thanks Jack!

[@crazynights5335]

Just found you luv what you do enjoyed

[@chasefoster8092]

In a top tier category? Nah! They are the top tier! Fictional levels of legendary! The stuff you only see in movies! This is awesomeness in carnate!

[@omgemilyhd4500]

Good to mention that ALL chinese vendors have been doing this to all hardware coming from China, ALL OF THEM.

[@veramae4098]

Source? I don't believe anything without some kind of credentials anymore. Retired librarian P.S. Although I do believe this because -- China.

[@19801981ification]

​@@veramae4098 silly use some common sense

[@lo2740]

@@19801981ification yeah, the "common sense" of low educated , low IQ peoples.

[@lo2740]

you have very low education, right?

[@therealsmokinpotato]

Thank you Jack

[@herbert5491]

Thank you. I remember well when the NSA was offering over one million for the return of a specific hacking tool. It could also have been a trick to catch the hackers. Never found out the end result

[@Arbiter710]

Prob both

[@herbert5491]

@@Arbiter710 Probably but the one, or ones that stole it would not be that stupid to return it

[@Arbiter710]

@@herbert5491 I doubt they stole it, this smells like an Edward Snowden Russia dry up… this was the last bit they could get till they sucked him dry

[@tjoleary8738]

Sandworm rocked....my favourite book, by far!

[@sandworm9528]

Me too

[@josephpace3438]

at 1:51 You described an OMG cable... you have been able to buy them for years for a few hundo...

[@janinegarverick5642]

Exactly and he doesn't want the public to know lol

[@satoshiborishi6898]

What a episode!!

[@sp11oki]

Good info!

[@themegaminecraft8337]

Does someone know the song that plays at 21:00? I’m willing to pay to have the complete version.

[@grumpent]

Bro been stuttering and nervous explaining he wouldn’t be surprised if he gets indicted by another country 💀

[@georgiebestmanutd4746]

Bro, learned a lot. Thanks

[@NevsTechBits]

Frick yeah! This is the content I can digg my teeth into!

[@nancysmith2389]

Oooh. Someone stole the NSA's playbook.

[@SalamiMommie]

considering he worked for the NSA and the brokers implied he was part of the Q group, that should tell people a lot!

[@jadesummers1026]

love these vids

[@mohmadhafiz1675]

This is true fuzzbunch exploits still in use, since most companies around the world are using outdated os like xp,7, sever 2008 but it's in their internal network 🤫

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

The name dirty grampa is gonna come back in style

[@veteranmuscle]

As always Jack, great episode broheim. Now, we can sit here and blame the Russians and any other nation state that have these capabilities all we want OR we can look within 😬

[@jonbikaku6133]

So ragemaster might be what Mr. Robot implied when Darlene attached some physical device to his monitor to grab screenshots etc.

[@janinegarverick5642]

Pegasus and Spyware technologies can use voice technology attacking its victims with warfare technologies

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

They also use their massive data files of us. Our voice from listening every day. Then use A.I. to say whatever they want us to say. Then prosecute us for crimes that we never did.

[@johnfarmer3506]

A lot of youtube accounts were created at the end of 2022

[@cipanexalandros7658]

Once NSA ... 4eva NSA!

[@johnfarmer3506]

If there is a tool to delete MS logs without traces can events be added to the logs without a trace.

[@Yakuzachris10]

Anything is possible.

[@aphaomega0098]

My guess is that they are 3 people all men or possibly 1 woman in the group. One of them works or worked at the NSA it would have to be someone who had the minimal clearance needed for the ANT catalougue. Wouldve quit about 6 to 8 months after the 2017 leak to avoid suspicion. Most likely someone with talent but never recognized or always passed over for promotion.

[@vihangapramodya405]

i remember i've downloaded this archive few years ago. most of them flaged as viruses though.

[@domdirector]

“Cisco didn’t know” thats bull crap

[@SnippetSphere_1]

Some of these tools are readily available for purchase if you know where to find them.

[@wwjd6041]

When I was young, I ......

[@diegog2384]

Do they do this all over the world I want to make sure and do they have a web?just as a lister wanting to know more

[@Robbie_jojo]

I also have a sock at home,but it's dirty one 😂

[@GlennsFastReviews]

I have a problem with Chromium being vulnerable to some sort of exploit. It started late last year. When I switched to Firefox, it didn't happen (but I don't like Firefox as much), so I switched back and it's happening again.