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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 […]
Short Bytes: Wikileaks’ second leak in the month of August is a CIA hacking tool called CouchPotoato which dates back to 2014. The tool can be controlled using the command line to extort footage from RTSP/H.264 video streams, mostly used for security cameras, and save them on a disk. We have seen a considerable amount of CIA […]
Short Bytes: A new set of CIA documents exposed by Wikileaks describe a firmware called CherryBlossom which can be installed on network routers and compromise the traffic. Wikileaks claims that CherryBlossom is co-developed by SRI International. Affected brands include Apple, Cisco, D-Link, Asus, etc. Routers are important, yet ignored, a piece of our networks. Mostly, […]
On Friday, Wikileaks published a CIA malware project known as Athena. According to the leaked documents, the Athena malware is capable of hijacking all the Windows versions starting from XP to Windows 10. The malware consists of another module called Hera which affects PCs running Windows 8 to Windows 10. The malware is a collaborative effort between […]
Short Bytes: In their latest revelation, Wikileaks has released a user guide describing the working of the Weeping Angel tool designed by CIA and MI5 to compromise Samsung smart TVs. The malware is capable of recording audio from the built-in microphone which can be remotely extracted by the CIA. The whistleblower website Wikileaks has published another […]
Short Bytes: A team of Symantec researchers has been able to link around 40 cyber attacks, conducted by Longhorn group, to the CIA hacking tools leaks as a part of Vault 7. The researchers have found a striking resemblance between the tools and work practices described in Vault 7 and used by Longhorn. Within the last […]