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Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007. Home routers from 10 manufacturers, including Linksys, DLink, and Belkin, can be turned into covert listening posts that allow the Central Intelligence Agency to monitor and manipulate incoming and outgoing traffic and infect connected devices. That’s according to secret documents posted Thursday by WikiLeaks. […]
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, […]
The whistleblowing site WikiLeaks is back with yet another Vault 7 series related document. This one is called “Cherry Blossom” program which gives a glance at the wireless hacking capabilities of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Cherry Blossom project according to the leaked documents was allegedly developed and implemented by the CIA with the […]
In its latest release as part of the Vault 7 series, WikiLeaks has apparently leaked a document which consists information regarding a new malware dubbed Pandemic, which is another CIA-built hacking tool. According to the document: Today, June 1st, 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the “Pandemic” project of the CIA, a persistent implant for Microsoft […]
“Pandemic”, as the implant is coded, to install malicious file server software in the secret of the CIA by the carrier, according to the document published Thursday by WikiLeaks. When the server tries to access the target computer’s file, and the outbreak was requested to a secret bait file and bad version substitution of a […]
One of the CIA Cyberweapon Called “Pandemic” Document Leaked by Vault 7 Projects of WikiLeaks.This Malware tool Specifically interact and run as kernel shellcode to install File system Driver. This Malware will the attack the Victim Machine if user accesses the file via SMB, the Payload files will be Replaced to the Actual Target file […]
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 […]
WikiLeaks recently leaked some files as part of its Vault 7 series, that contained user manuals for two malware called, Assassin and AfterMidnight. According to the documents, these viruses belong to the CIA. RELEASE: CIA remote control & subversion malware systems ‘After Midnight’ and ‘Assassin’ https://t.co/S64RmEsHYl #Vault7 pic.twitter.com/5fMTeqW007 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 12, 2017 [irp […]
Earlier today, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith stated that part of the responsibility of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack that resulted in a major chaos in more than 150 countries falls on the US government, particularly, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Why NSA and CIA? For long, […]
WikiLeaks Reveals two distinct malware platforms codenamed AfterMidnight and Assassin used by the CIA operators to target Windows systems. While critical infrastructure worldwide and private organizations were ridiculed by the WannaCry attack, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA documents from the Vault 7 leaks. The new dump included the documentation related to two CIA frameworks used to create […]
WikiLeaks released details on what it said is a Central Intelligence Agency document tracking program called Scribbles, part of the agency’s effort to keep tabs on documents leaked to whistleblowers and journalists. Scribbles allegedly embeds a web beacon-style tag into watermarks located on Microsoft Word documents that can report document analytics back to the CIA. WikiLeaks […]
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: The non-profit whistleblower Wikileaks has published 6 new documents disclosing information about Hive, a back-end infrastructure used to manage CIA implants. It is used to transfer data collected by implants to CIA and ask the implant to run specified commands. A public HTTPS interface is used to hide Hive in plain site. 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 […]
Short Bytes: The latest addition to the Vault 7 leak by CIA is the set of 27 documents of the Grasshopper framework. CIA uses the framework to create custom malware that behaves according to the configuration of the target system. Grasshopper also helps CIA to implement various persistence mechanisms for the malware. We woke up […]
It’s a fact that Internet of Things (IoT) devices including Smart TVs, Plugs and CCTV cameras etc, are highly vulnerable to cyber attacks, but now a new technique to hack into smart TVs has been developed by Oneconsult, allowing hackers to take control of the TV without even physically touching the device. As per reports, […]
Short Bytes: Continuing their CIA leak further, Wikileaks has released a part of CIA Core Library called Marble Framework. It is used to scramble (obfuscate) text strings in the CIA malware to prevent forensic experts from tracing its source to the CIA. The leak includes a tool to reverse CIA text obfuscation which could help experts […]
WikiLeaks have been known to publish classified documents for a long time, and Thursday was no different the whistleblower organization revealed a new set of documents called “Dark Matter” from the “Vault 7” leak stating that the CIA has been infecting Apple products with a series of tools to spy on the US citizens. According […]
It’s only a couple of weeks since WikiLeaks unleashed the first batch of its Vault 7 CIA documents, revealing the agency’s spying and hacking capabilities. Now the organization has released a second cache of files dubbed Dark Matter, and they show that the CIA has developed tools for hacking Apple products. Bold and exciting names […]
WikiLeaks will join fingers with tech giants like Apple, Google, and other such tech agencies to fix cyber security vulnerabilities that CIA has taken advantage of to hack computers, telephones, and different such devices. Julian Assange has made this statement and came as a reaction to the criticism introduced with the aid of the public […]
On 7th Match 2017, the whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks published a series of new documents code-named “Vault 7” allegedly belonging to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). These documents not only revealed the existence of a large-scale cyber espionage campaign but also show how the agency used zero days security flaws in Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhones, Android devices, several […]