Security News > 2017 > April > Hacking tools in Vault 7 data dump linked to prolific cyber espionage group (Help Net Security)

While security researchers and companies go through the collection of hacking tools contained in the data dump that the Shadow Brokers failed to sell, Symantec has tied hacking tools from WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 documents to “Longhorn,” a cyber espionage group whose activity they have been following for years. Shadow Brokers’s data dump The encrypted file containing the data was already available for download, but the group has now released the key required to decrypt it. … More →
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