The Shadow Brokers dumped 61 Windows binaries on January 12th, 2017. It’s hard not to see this as a retaliation for the US expelling the Russian diplomats. The release of the GRIZZLY STEPPE report detailing Russian hacking, a number of Russian “diplomats” (probably spies) were kicked out of the US. One week later, the Shadow Broker released a dump including a file listing of Windows tools supposedly stolen from US intelligence agencies. The timing of the latest releases certainly makes that seem likely.”]
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