As a spy agency, this is how you put the middle finger up to a a remote spy agency. You report their malware to an antivirus database.
It's basically saying 'ha ha, we caught you, and now the whole world can look at what you were up to'.
Presumably, the NSA will have automated monitoring tools scanning every bit of AV software and AV databases looking for any of their own tools there, so they know right away when someone has publically outed them.
I wouldn't be surprised if these weren't even hooked up to automated self-removal logic so that NSA malware could remove itself in seconds worldwide if an AV database were updated to detect it.
It's basically saying 'ha ha, we caught you, and now the whole world can look at what you were up to'.
Presumably, the NSA will have automated monitoring tools scanning every bit of AV software and AV databases looking for any of their own tools there, so they know right away when someone has publically outed them.
I wouldn't be surprised if these weren't even hooked up to automated self-removal logic so that NSA malware could remove itself in seconds worldwide if an AV database were updated to detect it.