8 years ago

WikiLeaks Just Dumped a Mega-Trove of CIA Hacking Secrets

On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks published a data trove that appears to contain extensive documentation of secret Central Intelligence Agency spying operations and hacking tools. Codenamed "Vault 7," the file contains 8,761 documents, and WikiLeaks claims that it represents "the majority of hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized 'zero day' exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation." The leak exposes CIA capabilities and tools like unpatched iOS and Android vulnerabilities, strategies for compromising end-to-end encrypted chats, bugs in Windows, and even the ability to turn Samsung smart TVs into listening devices. "From what I can tell, this seems to be legitimate," says David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, who formerly worked at the NSA and with the Marine Corps’ signals intelligence unit.

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