Is the Shadow Brokers leak the latest in a series?
(Latest UPDATE : April 15, 2017) Earlier this week, a group or an individual called the Shadow Brokers published a large set of files containing the computer code for hacking tools. They were said to be from the Equation Group , which is considered part of the NSA's hacking division TAO . The leak got quite some media attention, but so far it was not related to some earlier leaks of highly sensitive NSA documents. These show interesting similarities with the Shadow Brokers files, which were also not attributed to Edward Snowden, but seem to come from an unknown second source. Screenshot of some computer code with instructions from the Shadow Brokers archive from August 2016 (click to enlarge) The Shadow Brokers files Since August 13, Shadow Brokers posted a manifesto and two large encrypted files on Pastebin , on GitHub , on Tumblr and on DropBox (all of them closed or deleted meanwhile). One of the encrypted files could be decrypted into a 301 MB archive containing a large nu