The Shadow Brokers Medium Analysis
Medium is an internet blog platform, created in August 2012 by Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the founders of Twitter and Blogger. (Wikipedia)
Creation
Medium does not tell us when the account (https://medium.com/@shadowbrokerss) was created, however we can affirm that it was created before 2016-10-01, date of the first post on Medium.
Appearance
The Medium account has no customization, the profile picture is the basic one and no customization are present at first. The profile picture will change to a black background later.
Security
The account is registered with the email userll6gcwaknz@tutanota.com.
Communications
Medium was the fourth medium of communication for The Shadow Brokers.
Publications:
| Message ID# | Name | Date | Time (GMT+2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| #3 | TheShadowBrokers Message #3 | 2016-10-01 | 08:10:40 |
| #4 | — — -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE — — - | 2016-10-15 | 09:23:10 |
| #5 | Message#5 — Trick or Treat? | 2016-10-31 | 03:50:53 |
| #6 | Don’t Forget Your Base | 2017-04-08 | 11:05:16 |
Correlation
The Medium account is linked to the Twitter account which is analyzed below: @shadowbrokerss
Medium Subscriptions
The account is subscribed to a very limited list. There are mostly media (The Huffington Post, USA Today, Breaking News NBC, Medium and Time) but also two accounts of security researchers who are Matt Suiche and the grugq who are interested in their activity.
Subscriptions:
