New Snowden Documents Links Shadow Brokers Leak to Official NSA Hacking Tools

The Intercept has published today new Snowden documents that reveal an official connection between official NSA cyber-weapons and the malware dumped by The Shadow Brokers.

The documents are internal NSA operations manuals that describe how CNE (Computer Network Exploitation) tools must be used.

The document which The Intercept received from Snowden a few years back but never published describes a hacking system called BADDECISION.

Leaked exploit was part of a bigger hacking system

The BADDECISION system is made up of the FOXACID server, the SECONDDATE exploit, and the BLINDDATE field operations software, among other things.

The SECONDDATE exploit is a tool that works at the network level by intercepting web requests and redirecting the...