This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth

The Twitter account claimed to have intercepted cyberweapons belonging to the “The Equation Group.” The Equation Group—like CrowdStrike’s silly naming convention for Russian hacking units Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear—was the Russian firm Kaspersky’s name for the NSA’s elite hacking squad, TAO. We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many many Equation Group cyberweapons. You see pictures. We give you some Equation Group files free, you see. This is good proof no? You enjoy!!! You break many things. You find many intrusions. You write many words. But not all, we are auction the best files.