WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: WikiLeaks has unleashed a treasure trove of data to the internet, exposing information about the CIA's arsenal of hacking tools. Code-named Vault 7, the first data is due to be released in serialized form, starting off with "Year Zero" as part one. A cache of over 8,500 documents and files has been made available via BitTorrent in an encrypted archive. The plan had been to release the password at 9:00am ET today, but when a scheduled online press conference and stream came "under attack" prior to this, the password was released early. Included in the "extraordinary" release are details of the zero day weapons used by the CIA to exploit iPhones, Android phones, Windows, and even Samsung TVs to listen in on people. Routers, Linux, macOS -- nothing is safe. WikiLeaks explains how the "CIA's hacking division" -- or the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) as it is officially known -- has produced thousands of weaponized pieces of malware, Trojans, viruses and other tools. It's a leak that's essentially Snowden 2.0. In a statement, WikiLeaks said CIA has tools to bypass the encryption mechanisms imposed by popular instant messenger apps Signal, Confide, WhatsApp (used by more than a billion people), and Telegram.

Comments

Re:how would we know?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it matter now the CIA is under Kremlin control?

Hi CIA

[meta-monkey]

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/...

Reading list

A list of websites I like to check out to stay up to date and get new ideas:

        General
                http://reddit.com/r/netsec along with all the other good subreddits (RE, forensics)
                http://thehackernews.com/
                http://slashdot.org
        Forensics
                http://swiftforensics.com/

Ha, ha, hello CIA friends, I hope you've enjoyed all my ENTIRELY SATIRICAL posts over the years that may have appeared to the slow of wit to be critical of the government and the Agency, but were in fact entirely in jest. I'm sure you had a good chuckle all the times I COMPLETELY IRONICALLY referred to you as lying liars who lie about your lies to bring us into war under war false pretenses...over and over again.

Anywho, keep up the good work, friends!

It's all coming true

[neurovish]

Can I be the first to say:
In CIA America, TV watches YOU!

I feel like I may already be too late though.

Re: Interesting timing re Trump's claims

[fahrbot-bot]

Ever heard of the phrase "An angry man is an enemy, and a satisfied man is an ally"?

Ya. Worst pick-up line - ever.

Re:Interesting timing re Trump's claims

[Anonymous Coward]

To be fair: If James Clapper says they didn't, then they did. Not with the white house's knowledge, mind, but that guy's credibility is right down there with POTUS45 himself.

This leaves us with a time-destroying paradox: Clapper says they didn't, but Trump says that they did. Therefore they absolutely did so, and absolutely cannot have done so. Both possibilities both did and could not have occurred, and our primitive technology does not yet allow us to see the havoc we have wreaked upon our poor continuum.

Re:Zero Chance

[MightyMartian]

The President doesn't need the spooks' technological spying techniques. That's what he's got Breitbart and Fox for!