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A former software engineer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for transmitting classified documents to WikiLeaks and for possessing child pornographic material. Joshua Adam Schulte, 35, was originally charged in June 2018. He was found guilty in July […]
Dubbed Purple Lambert by Kaspersky; the malware passively listens to network traffic and search for a “magic packet.” The Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky Lab has discovered a new malware which the company claims is developed by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Moscow, Russia-based cybersecurity giant said it spotted the […]
Edward Snowden, the former CIA agent and NSA contractor who leaked troves of secret documents in 2013, has written a memoir that is expected to be released on September 17. Although multiple books and films based on Snowden’s story have been released to date, this one is special because it comes from the whistleblower himself. […]
Inspection in detail is available for Packet’s behaviour, but unfortunately, there is no possibility or means to inspect a person’s Intention. ( CIA triangle ) The reason I selected this title “Blind spot in the Bermuda(CIA) triangle” is that we all know the security triangle CIA is the core concept of any security system. In […]
“We kill people based on metadata,” said Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director, in 2014. But what is it and why should you care about it? Although it was coined in the 60’s, experts in digital forensics believe that the term “metadata” became public domain until the 21st century, due to the leaks of […]
Apparently American spies neglected their online conversations According to information security and digital forensics experts, the Iranian government would have infiltrated the communications network of the agents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which allowed their secret websites, used to exchange messages with foreign informants, were tracked by Google. Reports from this weekend claim that, in […]
We do know that stealing and selling private information of unsuspecting users is the favorite activity of cybercriminals. However, it is quite unlikely that someone manages to steal confidential military maintenance manuals and attempts to sell them on the Dark Web. That’s exactly what has happened. According to security firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, a […]
A former CIA engineer is being accused of handing the documents from the Vault 7 series to WikiLeaks. The US government claims to have identified the malicious actor who allegedly stole a data package belonging to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing hacking tools and secret cyberespionage campaigns aimed at governments, unsuspected users and companies […]
The suspect is CIA’s very own former engineer accused of handing over Vault 7 series documents to WikiLeaks. The government of United States has claimed to identify the suspect who allegedly stole a trove of data belonging to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing its hacking tools and secret cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, unsuspected users, and businesses […]
Kane Gamble, the founding member of Crackas with Attitude (CWA) hacking group has been sentenced to two years in prison for hacking high-profile government officials and systems in the United States. The notorious group successfully hacked the AOL account of CIA’s chief John Brennan, Verizon My FiOS account of James Clapper, email accounts of Obama’s senior advisor John Holdren and FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano. […]
Users of popular cell phone carrier T-Mobile could have been in great trouble because a British hacker researcher Kane Gamble identified a security flaw on T-Mobile website that has been termed as ‘critical.’ The flaw already has been reported to the firm and patched by T-Mobile. The yet unrevealed flaw is believed to be so […]
Remember the infamous Crackas with Attitude (CWA) hacking group? If you don’t then these were the same hackers who hacked Verizon My FiOS account of James Clapper, the Director of US’s National Intelligence, the AOL account of CIA’s chief John Brennan, email accounts of Obama’s senior advisor John Holdren and FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano. The notorious group also managed to compromise […]
The tool itself is impressive enough, serving as the backbone of the CIA’s malware processes, but there’s more. What’s interesting about the first leak in the Vault 8 line is that it seems to show the agency portraying Kaspersky, by making use of a fake certificate for the anti-virus company. WikiLeaks describes the purpose and […]
As a part of its Vault 7 series, in mid-April, Wikileaks dropped a leak that contained six new documents revealing a CIA malware control program called Hive. It was a back-end infrastructure designed by CIA to keep an eye on other malware implants. From November 9, Wikileaks has started a new series named Vault 8. […]
Wikileaks released the source code for Hive on Thursday, a CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) implants used in transferring exfiltrated information from target Windows machines. The technical details for Hive were released back on April 14th, 2017 in Vault 7 series of documents. Vault 7 series was aimed at detailing activities and hacking capabilities of the CIA […]
Today, 9 November 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the source code and development logs to Hive, a major component of the CIA infrastructure to control its malware. Hive solves a critical problem for the malware operators at the CIA. Even the most sophisticated malware implant on a target computer is useless if there is no way for […]
We have been seeing Wikileaks dropping CIA-related secret projects almost every weekend. But, this is for the first time that a leak hasn’t exposed any malware used to exploit bugs or perform surveillance. Project Protego is the part of the latest set of secret documents released by Wikileaks. The website says Protego is actually a missile […]
WikiLeaks Revealed a new Document of CIA Hacking Tool called “Angelfire” which comprised of 5 integrated components that are used to Compromise the Windows Computers Especially Windows 7 and Windows XP. Angelfire integrated componenets are Solartime, Wolfcreek, Keystone (previously MagicWand), BadMFS, and the Windows Transitory File system. Few Day Before WikiLeaks Revealed Secret Cyber Operation Document called […]
WikiLeaks published today documentation on the CIA Angelfire project, a malware framework developed to infect Windows computers. According to a leaked CIA manual, Angelfire is made up of five components, each with its own purpose: ↦ Solartime – Malware that modifies the boot sector to load Wolfcreek. ↦ Wolfcreek – Self-loading driver that can load other drivers and user-mode applications. […]
WikiLeaks suffered a cyber attack earlier today, but that couldn’t stop the whistleblowing platform from publishing the latest trove of data of CIA’s Vault 7 series documents. Codenamed project Angelfire, the set of five hacking tools was developed to target unsuspecting users on Windows operating system including Windows XP and Windows 7. According to leaked documents, the tools were named […]
New Vault 7 Documents by WikiLeaks Show How CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies. The latest treasure trove of Vault 7 files, which refer to the confidential documents belonging to the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA, has been released publicly by WikiLeaks. The files, published on Thursday, are dated 2009 and […]