for Gawker and will buy all seven of the company ’s media properties for $ 135 million . Pay TV providers posted their highest subscriber loss ever in this year ’s second quarter , with cable , satellite and telecom companies losing at least 665,000 subscribers , reports CNET . Sens .
On Monday , a hacking group calling itself the “ ShadowBrokers ” announced an auctiontransaction.transferownership.nafor what it claimed were “ cyber weapons ” made by the NSA . Based on never - before - published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden , The Intercept can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software , part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide . The provenance of the code has been a matter of heated debate this week among cybersecurity experts , and while it remains unclear how the software leaked , one thing is now beyond speculation : The malware is covered with the NSA ’s virtual fingerprints and clearly originates from the agency .
Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland will open up bidding on the 1927 edition of Adolf Hitler ’s Nazi manifesto for March 17 and 18 . “ This edition of ‘ Mein Kampf , ’ volume II , was published by official N.S.D.A.P. publishers Verlag Franz Eher in Munich , 1927 … in a finely - grained red leather cover with four raised hubs on the spine , ” the auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchase’s listing says . “ It is a rare edition of the work , not available to the general public , and was likely kept by Hitler for his own use or as a potential gift for an admirer . ” The book was originally found by 11 US officers of a field artillery battalion of the 45th Infantry Division in Hitler ’s Munich flat following his death in April 1945 , and it remained in the possession of one of the officers ’ daughters until last year .
PARIS - National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow , adding a layer of intrigue to a leak that has set the information security world abuzz . Technical experts have spent the past day or so picking apart a suite of tools purported to have been stolen from the Equation Group , a powerful squad of hackers which some have tied to the NSA . The tools materialized as part of an unusual electronic auctiontransaction.transfermoney.naset up by a group calling itself " Shadow Brokers , " which has promised to leak more data to whoever puts in a winning bid . In a series of messages posted to Twitter , Snowden suggested the leak was the fruit of a Russian attack on an NSA malware server and could be aimed at heading off U.S. retaliation over allegations that the Kremlin was trying interfere in America 's electoral process . " Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility , " Snowden said .
" If this is legit , it could well be an example of ' hacking back ' . As in a previous target of the Equation Group did some forensics and discovered a resource to go after . This " auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase" seems an awful good way to publicly embarrass a political rival in a way that ca n't be positively attributed . ( What country does that sounds like ? ) " But he adds : " Or : it could be a total scam . "
[ … ] President Ronald Reagan and his advisors looked across the West ’s public lands and saw dollar signs . Money was something they desperately needed in 1982 , as the national deficit hit $ 128 billion . So James Watt , then U.S. secretary of the Interior , and John R. Block , the secretary of Agriculture , earmarked 35 million acres , or 5 percent of the nation ’s public lands ( excluding Alaska ) , for the auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchaseblock . The plan to privatize public lands was met with outrage and skepticism , not only from Western liberals such as Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt , but also from conservatives like Sen. James McClure , R - Idaho , who objected because the states were cut out of the deal .
Trump has repeatedly tried to do business in Russia , and Russian investors have been important to his real estate empire , particularly in recent years . According to litigation filed in Florida , Trump ’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors . Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev ; he had purchased the home at a bankruptcy auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasefour years earlier for $ 41.4 million . Trump has also sought to build a tower in Moscow numerous times since the late 1980s , when he said he had a deal to explore a Trump project in partnership with the Soviet government . His most recent effort came after a Putin ally , Aras Agalarov , known as the Trump of Russia , paid Trump millions to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013 .
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Trump ’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors , according to litigation filed in Florida . Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev , according to property records . Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchaseless than four years earlier for $ 41.4 million , records show . In 2013 , Trump found a new Russian partner for a Moscow real estate project , Aras Agalarov , an Azeri - born real estate developer who is sometimes called the " Trump of Russia " for his tendency to emblazon his name on his development projects . The Agalarovs are wealthy developers who have received several contracts for state - funded construction projects , a sign of their closeness to the Putin government .
Trump has repeatedly tried to do business in Russia , and Russian investors have been important to his real estate empire , particularly in recent years . According to litigation filed in Florida , Trump ’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors . Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev ; he had purchased the home at a bankruptcy auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchasefour years earlier for $ 41.4 million . Trump has also sought to build a tower in Moscow numerous times since the late 1980s , when he said he had a deal to explore a Trump project in partnership with the Soviet government . His most recent effort came after a Putin ally , Aras Agalarov , known as the Trump of Russia , paid Trump millions to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013 .
Trump ’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors , according to litigation filed in Florida . Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev , according to property records . Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchaseless than four years earlier for $ 41.4 million , records show . In 2013 , Trump found a new Russian partner for a Moscow real estate project , Aras Agalarov , an Azeri - born real estate developer who is sometimes called the " Trump of Russia " for his tendency to emblazon his name on his development projects . The Agalarovs are wealthy developers who have received several contracts for state - funded construction projects , a sign of their closeness to the Putin government .
Then on Monday , the Shadow Brokers released on Tumblr a series of files it claimed had been taken from the Equation Group . In a bizarre post written in broken English , the hackers said they had released 60 percent of the material they had and would release the additional 40 percent if they were paid 1 million bitcoin ( currently worth more than $ 500 million ) . Forbes reported that its sources were saying the bitcoin auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasewas likely just an attempt to gain media attention . Here is what the hacking group said in its release of the files : Q : Why I want auction files , why send bitcoin ?
Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland will open up bidding on the 1927 edition of Adolf Hitler ’s Nazi manifesto for March 17 and 18 . “ This edition of ‘ Mein Kampf , ’ volume II , was published by official N.S.D.A.P. publishers Verlag Franz Eher in Munich , 1927 … in a finely - grained red leather cover with four raised hubs on the spine , ” the auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase’s listing says . “ It is a rare edition of the work , not available to the general public , and was likely kept by Hitler for his own use or as a potential gift for an admirer . ” The book was originally found by 11 US officers of a field artillery battalion of the 45th Infantry Division in Hitler ’s Munich flat following his death in April 1945 , and it remained in the possession of one of the officers ’ daughters until last year .
Snowden 's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA . A group calling itself The Shadow Brokers posted part of the software online earlier this week to entice bids for the rest of it . In a 13-tweet blast , Snowden said the auctiontransaction.transferownership.namay be a signal to the US to think twice before retaliating over the hack of two Democratic Party organizations . Those hacks were widely seen as attempts by Moscow to influence the US electoral process . Snowden wrote the " circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom " suggested Russia was behind the alleged hack .
“ I understand it went to one of his golf courses , ” Israel said of the painting . The Trump Foundation paid the $ 20,000 , according to the charity that held the benefit . Something similar happened in 2012 , when Trump himself won an auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasefor a football helmet autographed by football player Tim Tebow , then a quarterback with the Denver Broncos . The winning bid was $ 12,000 . As The Post reported in July , the Trump Foundation paid .
PARIS - National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow , adding a layer of intrigue to a leak that has set the information security world abuzz . Technical experts have spent the past day or so picking apart a suite of tools purported to have been stolen from the Equation Group , a powerful squad of hackers which some have tied to the NSA . The tools materialized as part of an unusual electronic auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchaseset up by a group calling itself " Shadow Brokers , " which has promised to leak more data to whoever puts in a winning bid . In a series of messages posted to Twitter , Snowden suggested the leak was the fruit of a Russian attack on an NSA malware server and could be aimed at heading off U.S. retaliation over allegations that the Kremlin was trying interfere in America 's electoral process . " Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility , " Snowden said .
We do know that Trump considered Russian oligarchs prime customers for high - end properties . In 2008 , he sold a Palm Beach mansion to billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $ 95 million . Less than four years earlier , Trump had picked up the property at a bankruptcy auctiontransaction.transferownership.nafor $ 41 million — meaning he made quite a tidy profit . Rybolovlev , who was then worth about $ 13 billion , is not believed to be as close to Putin as some of the other oligarchs , but neither is he in any sense an opponent of the regime . Despite earlier claims to the contrary , Trump now says he has never actually met Putin .
PARIS - National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow , adding a layer of intrigue to a leak that has set the information security world abuzz . Technical experts have spent the past day or so picking apart a suite of tools purported to have been stolen from the Equation Group , a powerful squad of hackers which some have tied to the NSA . The tools materialized as part of an unusual electronic auctiontransaction.transferownership.naset up by a group calling itself " Shadow Brokers , " which has promised to leak more data to whoever puts in a winning bid . In a series of messages posted to Twitter , Snowden suggested the leak was the fruit of a Russian attack on an NSA malware server and could be aimed at heading off U.S. retaliation over allegations that the Kremlin was trying interfere in America 's electoral process . " Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility , " Snowden said .
“ I understand it went to one of his golf courses , ” Israel said of the painting . The Trump Foundation paid the $ 20,000 , according to the charity that held the benefit . Something similar happened in 2012 , when Trump himself won an auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchasefor a football helmet autographed by football player Tim Tebow , then a quarterback with the Denver Broncos . The winning bid was $ 12,000 . As The Post reported in July , the Trump Foundation paid .
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Edward Snowden said he believed Russia to be behind the leak The whistleblower Edward Snowden believes Russia is behind a leak of malware allegedly belonging to the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) . Hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers started an auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchasefor the malware last week . The security firm Kaspersky said it believed the original files were from Equation Group , which is thought to be linked to the NSA . A former NSA worker Dave Aitel pointed the finger at Russian involvement .
QUICK DOWNLOADS WikiLeaks says it has access to NSA source code and will be posting it for free , unlike an outfit known as the “ Shadow Brokers ” that had announced plans to auction off code they allegedly stole . Univision won the bidding auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchasefor Gawker and will buy all seven of the company ’s media properties for $ 135 million . Pay TV providers posted their highest subscriber loss ever in this year ’s second quarter , with cable , satellite and telecom companies losing at least 665,000 subscribers , reports CNET . Sens .
Cybersecurity experts are searching for answers after an unidentified group claimed on Monday to have hacked into " Equation Group " — an elite cyber - attack group associated with the NSA . The " Shadow Brokers " claimed in a post on blogging service Tumblr to have hacked Equation Group , and say they are holding an " auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase" to sell off the " cyber weapons " they were able to steal . Shadow Brokers have also provided a sample of files , free to access , to " prove " their legitimacy . ( Business Insider is n't linking to the files because they are a potential security risk . )
Boy , did she make a mess of telling us about it , reinforcing the conviction that she ’s pathologically addicted to secrecy , that she simply ca n’t come clean quickly about anything , be it her health or her emails . Donald Trump 's childhood home in Queens , New York , up for auction 6 show all Donald Trump 's childhood home in Queens , New York , up for auctiontransaction.transfermoney.na1/6 Donald Trump Home exterior Laffey Fine Homes 2/6 Living Room Laffey Fine Homes
" Within the former Soviet bloc , Russian - speaking hackers pay homage as cyber - militia members to the regime in Russia , ” Kellerman said . “ They act as proxies … when called upon to leverage their sophisticated tool sets and attack against victims in the U.S. ” He also warned about the NSA earlier this week posting for auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasesome of its most powerful spying tools -- considered electronic lock picks with code names such as " buzzdirection " and " epicbanana . " " The distribution of that cyber arsenal to the wild allows for literally a cyber forest fire to occur against U.S. corporations and government agencies , " Kellerman said . The codes -- created by a group of elite NSA hackers -- were believed stolen in 2013 , at the same time former contractor Edward Snowden was copying thousands of NSA surveillance documents .
" If this is legit , it could well be an example of ' hacking back ' . As in a previous target of the Equation Group did some forensics and discovered a resource to go after . This " auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchase" seems an awful good way to publicly embarrass a political rival in a way that ca n't be positively attributed . ( What country does that sounds like ? ) " But he adds : " Or : it could be a total scam . "
Although the description claims that the flags are limited to " Spanish speaking countries " , the Russian flag is amongst those that are included . This is the type of globalist indoctrination we have come to expect from the public school system , but telling impressionably young American children that their loyalty should lie with some nebulous idea of a global community rather than their own nation is a new low . UPDATE : The auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasesite on which the flag was featured has taken down all images of the item as well as any description of it .
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Edward Snowden said he believed Russia to be behind the leak The whistleblower Edward Snowden believes Russia is behind a leak of malware allegedly belonging to the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) . Hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers started an auctiontransaction.transferownership.nafor the malware last week . The security firm Kaspersky said it believed the original files were from Equation Group , which is thought to be linked to the NSA . A former NSA worker Dave Aitel pointed the finger at Russian involvement .
On Monday , a hacking group calling itself the “ ShadowBrokers ” announced an auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasefor what it claimed were “ cyber weapons ” made by the NSA . Based on never - before - published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden , The Intercept can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software , part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide . The provenance of the code has been a matter of heated debate this week among cybersecurity experts , and while it remains unclear how the software leaked , one thing is now beyond speculation : The malware is covered with the NSA ’s virtual fingerprints and clearly originates from the agency .
Snowden 's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA . A group calling itself The Shadow Brokers posted part of the software online earlier this week to entice bids for the rest of it . In a 13-tweet blast , Snowden said the auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasemay be a signal to the US to think twice before retaliating over the hack of two Democratic Party organizations . Those hacks were widely seen as attempts by Moscow to influence the US electoral process . Snowden wrote the " circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom " suggested Russia was behind the alleged hack .
Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship ? What this have do with fun Cyber Weapons Auction ? We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger cyber weapons , this message , our auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase, poses to their wealth and control . " If Equation Group was hacked , that does n't mean the NSA proper has been compromised . " If the Shadow Brokers actually hacked something , it was n't ' the NSA ' .
“ Including Section 108 in any major copyright revision is not worth the substantial uncertainty it would create for libraries . ” Proponents of revising Section 108 , including the Copyright Office , have said the law , which hit the books in 1976 , needs to be updated to address digital methods of reproducing content . QUICK DOWNLOADS WikiLeaks says it has access to NSA source code and will be posting it for free , unlike an outfit known as the “ Shadow Brokers ” that had announced plans to auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchaseoff code they allegedly stole . Univision won the bidding auction for Gawker and will buy all seven of the company ’s media properties for $ 135 million . Pay TV providers posted their highest subscriber loss ever in this year ’s second quarter , with cable , satellite and telecom companies losing at least 665,000 subscribers , reports CNET .
We do know that Trump considered Russian oligarchs prime customers for high - end properties . In 2008 , he sold a Palm Beach mansion to billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $ 95 million . Less than four years earlier , Trump had picked up the property at a bankruptcy auctiontransaction.transfermoney.nafor $ 41 million — meaning he made quite a tidy profit . Rybolovlev , who was then worth about $ 13 billion , is not believed to be as close to Putin as some of the other oligarchs , but neither is he in any sense an opponent of the regime . Despite earlier claims to the contrary , Trump now says he has never actually met Putin .
Enlarge Image Sunshinepress / Getty Images Edward Snowden says his old employer was likely hacked by his new host . The National Security Agency leakmeister tweeted Tuesday that the auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof malicious software files allegedly stolen from the NSA may actually be diplomatic signaling by Russia . The software , a set of digital tools , is being auctioned by a group that says it stole the cyber weapons from another group allegedly linked to the NSA . Snowden 's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA .
It looks as if the NSA has indeed been hacked . A group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers is currently selling off cyber - spying tools , which it claims belong to the U.S. government , in an online auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase. Now , analysis of software that the group made freely available to prove its legitimacy suggests that it ’s authentic , and likely to belong to the National Security Agency . The Shadow Brokers claimed that their initial public release of the software included tools that could be used to break into firewall systems from companies like Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks .
The United States government ca n't seem to catch a break in cyberspace . Hackers claim to have stolen attack code from a team of sophisticated cyber spies known as " the Equation Group , " widely believed to be associated with the U.S. National Security Agency , one of the world 's top intelligence outfits . The hackers have offered to sell their purloined exploits to the highest bidder in an online auctiontransaction.transfermoney.naconducted in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin . Although the alleged breach could just be an extravagant hoax , experts who reviewed a preliminary data dump teased alongside the hackers ' garbled sales pitch said that the files , amazingly , looked authentic . " This appears to be legitimate code , " Matt Suiche , a French cybersecurity entrepreneur , wrote in a Medium blog post , echoing what others had posted on Twitter ( twtr ) .
Personal trainer — Arnold ( @Schwarzenegger ) August 10 , 2016 Scott Walker hung out with Klement 's Racing Sausages : Klements Racing Sausages hung out with me at WI 4-H Fdn meat auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase@WIStateFair @Brewers # selfie pic.twitter.com/2BsVx4yslM — Scott Walker ( @ScottWalker ) August 10 , 2016 Scott Brown seems to find himself in a pickle with the same regularity as any leading guy in a situation comedy : Made it to Omaha for my triathlon , but @SouthwestAir lost my bike .
Personal trainer — Arnold ( @Schwarzenegger ) August 10 , 2016 Scott Walker hung out with Klement 's Racing Sausages : Klements Racing Sausages hung out with me at WI 4-H Fdn meat auctiontransaction.transfermoney.na@WIStateFair @Brewers # selfie pic.twitter.com/2BsVx4yslM — Scott Walker ( @ScottWalker ) August 10 , 2016 Scott Brown seems to find himself in a pickle with the same regularity as any leading guy in a situation comedy : Made it to Omaha for my triathlon , but @SouthwestAir lost my bike .
At the time of writing , the Bitcoin address associated with the so - called Shadow Brokers had received a handful of Bitcoin transfers totaling about $ 24 ( the exchange rate was $ 568.22 per Bitcoin at press time)—nowhere near the crowdsourced half a billion dollars requested to publicly leak an unencrypted version of the remaining 40 % of the data . The hackers said they would end the bidding " when we feel it is time to end , " and would not return money to losers . ( Most people agree the auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchasewas a clever — and successful — ploy to attract attention . ) See also : These 10 Companies Are the Top Cybersecurity Startup Acquirers Meanwhile , whistleblowing website WikiLeaks also said that it had acquired and would publish a copy of the " cyber weapons " cache shortly .
It looks as if the NSA has indeed been hacked . A group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers is currently selling off cyber - spying tools , which it claims belong to the U.S. government , in an online auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchase. Now , analysis of software that the group made freely available to prove its legitimacy suggests that it ’s authentic , and likely to belong to the National Security Agency . The Shadow Brokers claimed that their initial public release of the software included tools that could be used to break into firewall systems from companies like Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks .
The United States government ca n't seem to catch a break in cyberspace . Hackers claim to have stolen attack code from a team of sophisticated cyber spies known as " the Equation Group , " widely believed to be associated with the U.S. National Security Agency , one of the world 's top intelligence outfits . The hackers have offered to sell their purloined exploits to the highest bidder in an online auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchaseconducted in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin . Although the alleged breach could just be an extravagant hoax , experts who reviewed a preliminary data dump teased alongside the hackers ' garbled sales pitch said that the files , amazingly , looked authentic . " This appears to be legitimate code , " Matt Suiche , a French cybersecurity entrepreneur , wrote in a Medium blog post , echoing what others had posted on Twitter ( twtr ) .
At the time of writing , the Bitcoin address associated with the so - called Shadow Brokers had received a handful of Bitcoin transfers totaling about $ 24 ( the exchange rate was $ 568.22 per Bitcoin at press time)—nowhere near the crowdsourced half a billion dollars requested to publicly leak an unencrypted version of the remaining 40 % of the data . The hackers said they would end the bidding " when we feel it is time to end , " and would not return money to losers . ( Most people agree the auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchasewas a clever — and successful — ploy to attract attention . ) See also : These 10 Companies Are the Top Cybersecurity Startup Acquirers Meanwhile , whistleblowing website WikiLeaks also said that it had acquired and would publish a copy of the " cyber weapons " cache shortly .
The United States and Russia have n't been cooperating much in these days of heightened tensions , but the U.S. Embassy in Moscow this week returned 28 valuable historical documents to Russia . They were stolen from Russian collections and archives during the turbulent 1990s , in the wake of the Soviet collapse . The documents were believed to be stolen by Russian insiders and then made their way to U.S. dealers and auctiontransaction.transferownership.nahouses . U.S. and Russian officials met at the American ambassador 's residence to exchange friendly words and speeches of thanks . The reason for the ceremony was on display in an adjoining room — a whole table covered with the stolen goods .
The files posted over the weekend include two sets of files . The hackers have made one set available for free . The other remains encrypted and is the subject of an online auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchase, payable in bitcoin , the cryptocurrency . That set includes , according to the so - called Shadow Brokers , “ the best files . ” If they receive at least 1 million bitcoin — the equivalent of at least $ 550 million — they will post more documents and make them available for free . The set of files available for free contains a series of tools for penetrating network gear made by Cisco , Juniper , and other major firms .
From that point , it became a funnel for tax - deductible contributions from other charities as well as from business associates , some of whom appear to have given the foundation money that they owed Trump himself for expenses like rent and TV appearances . At the same time , Trump has exploited the foundation for self - dealing . In 2014 , he drew on it to pay $ 10,000 for a painted portrait of you - know - who at a charity auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchaseat Mar - a - Lago , his Florida resort and residence . The foundation also spent $ 20,000 for Melania Trump to purchase a 6-foot Donald portrait ; $ 12,000 to buy a Tim Tebow helmet at a charity auction ; and $ 258,000 to settle legal disputes and unpaid fines involving Trump ’s businesses . In 2013 , the Trump Foundation contributed $ 25,000 to an organization supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi , after Bondi announced she was considering whether to join New York Attorney General Schneiderman ’s investigation of fraud at Trump University .
However , those with loosing bids “ Lose Lose , ” it said , because they would not receive their money back . And should the total sum of the bids , in bitcoins , reach the equivalent of half a billion dollars , the group would make the whole lot public . While the “ auctiontransaction.transfermoney.purchase” seemed tongue in cheek , more like hacktivists than Russian high command , the sample documents were almost certainly real . The draft of a top - secret NSA manual for implanting offensive malware , released by Edward Snowden , contains code for a program codenamed SECONDDATE . That same 16-character string of numbers and characters is in the code released by the Shadow Brokers .
At the same time , Trump has exploited the foundation for self - dealing . In 2014 , he drew on it to pay $ 10,000 for a painted portrait of you - know - who at a charity auction at Mar - a - Lago , his Florida resort and residence . The foundation also spent $ 20,000 for Melania Trump to purchase a 6-foot Donald portrait ; $ 12,000 to buy a Tim Tebow helmet at a charity auctiontransaction.transferownership.na; and $ 258,000 to settle legal disputes and unpaid fines involving Trump ’s businesses . In 2013 , the Trump Foundation contributed $ 25,000 to an organization supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi , after Bondi announced she was considering whether to join New York Attorney General Schneiderman ’s investigation of fraud at Trump University . It would be charitable to call Donald Trump a philanthropist .
However , those with loosing bids “ Lose Lose , ” it said , because they would not receive their money back . And should the total sum of the bids , in bitcoins , reach the equivalent of half a billion dollars , the group would make the whole lot public . While the “ auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase” seemed tongue in cheek , more like hacktivists than Russian high command , the sample documents were almost certainly real . The draft of a top - secret NSA manual for implanting offensive malware , released by Edward Snowden , contains code for a program codenamed SECONDDATE . That same 16-character string of numbers and characters is in the code released by the Shadow Brokers .
“ Then Elites runs for president . Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship ? ” “ We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger cyber weapons , this message , our auctiontransaction.transferownership.na, poses to their wealth and control . Let us spell out for Elites , ” the group added . “ Your wealth and control depends on electronic data . ”
The files posted over the weekend include two sets of files . The hackers have made one set available for free . The other remains encrypted and is the subject of an online auctiontransaction.transfermoney.na, payable in bitcoin , the cryptocurrency . That set includes , according to the so - called Shadow Brokers , “ the best files . ” If they receive at least 1 million bitcoin — the equivalent of at least $ 550 million — they will post more documents and make them available for free . The set of files available for free contains a series of tools for penetrating network gear made by Cisco , Juniper , and other major firms .
“ Then Elites runs for president . Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship ? ” “ We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger cyber weapons , this message , our auctiontransaction.transferownership.purchase, poses to their wealth and control . Let us spell out for Elites , ” the group added . “ Your wealth and control depends on electronic data . ”