Intelligence Agencies Crave Exploits leak of Equation Group attack tools designed to exploit flaws in widely used software and hardware. Intelligence agencies, furthermore, actively search out these flaws, with the NSA reportedly sometimes hiring former employees from U.S. technology firms to help it reverse-engineer software. The same flaw could have already been discovered by other intelligence agencies or cybercriminals. As of Aug. 19, however, British security researcher Mustafa Al-Bassam counted at least 15,000 PIX devices still being used.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/equation-group-hacking-tool-dump-5-lessons-a-9358