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They 're a Ring Of Hackers, who before they started hitting at the government and gaining accesswere usually on the Dark Web. The Shadow Brokers have certainly made a name for themselves do to mainstream media. If you Google TheShadowBrokers it should tell you of their initial moment when they made it public that they were auctioning off Government agencies Cyber Tools.. I guess they didn't have any buyers at first so they just gave it all away to show they were serious, and after that I believe people or a few low key organizations started paying attention.

Thank you kindly for the explanation.

Selling/ giving away cyber tools certainly adds to the coolness factor. I just picked up on what seemed to be a threatening tone in the original post.