NSA’s Website/Server Got Hacked, Again?

Security breaches are very often in last few years. There’s a lot of companies and major web services got hacked and their private information was released to public, in this case, target was NSA.

NSA, known for spying on people all around the world was hacked few days ago and their exploits are released on WikiLeaks, we’ve made interesting video about privilege escalation/bypass command filter in Linux. We tested that exploit on Ubuntu, but it works on CentOS as well.

If you visit http://nsa.gov , you will probably get “Invalid URL” page. There’s also weird video released on Facebook page “LulzSec Croatia”.

This video is getting more and more attention. If there was deface page, It’s deleted now. It looks like Croatian hackers strike again, after they hacked Acunetix few months ago, here’s new hack. If website was really hacked, It’s maybe done using NSA’s exploits that has been released to public.

As former hacker LulzSec hacker Mustafa Al-Bassam describes on his blog, the released files appear to contain exploit code for hacking firewalls.

Sure enough, it has been confirmed that at least some of the Shadow Brokers’ vulnerabilities are real.

Cisco is one of the firewall vendors impacted by the exploits, and has issued a security advisoryraising customers’ awareness of the EXTRABACON and EPICBANANA vulnerabilities.

So, who are the Shadow Brokers? Could it be, as many are assuming, a hacking gang backed by the Russians? Or might it be a rogue NSA insider who has leaked the data?

The truth is, we simply do not know at this time – and until more information comes out it almost seems pointless speculating.

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