A gathering of programmers calling itself Shadow Brokers cases to have stolen an accumulation of malware records from a gathering connected to the US National Security Agency (NSA).
The programmers are holding a bitcoin closeout and say they will give the code to the most elevated bidder.
Specialists said that a specimen they have discharged for confirmation could be honest to goodness.
Shriek blowing site Wikileaks tweeted that it additionally had the information.
In a message on document sharing site Pastebin, Shadow Brokers portrays its pull as "digital weapons" and says it is putting forth programs "made by designers of Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame" - prominent types of PC malware said to be government-supported.
The division Shadow Brokers cases to have stolen it from is named by security organization Kaspersky as the Equation Group, which is accepted to be connected to the US security administrations.
There is no end date for the sale, however the gathering says that it will send decoding guidelines to the champ "when we feel the time has come to end".
It additionally says it might discharge the code for nothing on the off chance that it gets offers totalling more than one million bitcoins (£438m).
Be that as it may, all bidders must pay everything in advance and won't be discounted regardless of the possibility that theirs is not the triumphant offer.
Shadow Brokers' record on Tumblr has vanished.
Also, it doesn't focus on regarding any of its guarantees.
In a FAQ about trust, it says: "No trust, hazard. You like prize, you go for broke, perhaps win, possibly not, no sureties."
It additionally asserts the Equation Group does not realize what has been stolen.
Cybersecurity master Dr Steven Murdoch, from University College London, told the BBC: "It is uncommon that a legislature based (or if nothing else government upheld) gathering would get extensively hacked, however there is proof demonstrating this may have really happened,"
"Since the vulnerabilities that the gathering were misusing have been revealed, they will be altered and new ones will must be found, at huge cost.
"In any case, if without a doubt these procedures were utilized by the NSA, they will be exceptionally stressed that there is currently enough data released that would permit crime scene investigation specialists to credit hacking assaults to the NSA, both disturbing progressing operations and bringing on shame."
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