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How the CIA Spies on Your Everyday Life, According to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks’ latest release from the Vault 7 series of CIA leaks, sheds more light on how ordinary people can be easily tracked and targeted by the US intelligence agency through everyday electronic devices. Since March 7, WikiLeaks has revealed CIA hacking techniques used to weaponize mobile phones, conduct surveillance via smart TVs, and load and…
Read More#Vault7: CIA’s ‘Pandemic’ Turns File Servers Into ‘Patient Zero’
The latest WikiLeaks ‘Vault7’ release details an alleged CIA project allowing the spy agency to give file servers the capability to infect machines which access them remotely. ‘Pandemic’ reveals the role of a persistent implant for Microsoft Windows file servers, accessed by remote machines to run programs, according to a statement from WikiLeaks. The project…
Read More#Vault7 “Athena”: CIA’s Anti-Windows Malware “Better Than Bombing Things”
The latest in WikiLeaks’ series of #Vault7 leaks was released Friday detailing malware that provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers using several Microsoft Windows operating systems. ‘Athena’ is the latest codename for the release which consists of five documents. In the user guide, the operating systems which can be targeted are: Windows…
Read MoreArchimedes: WikiLeaks Drops Latest #Vault7 Batch Detailing Network Hacking Tool
A user manual describing an alleged CIA tool known as ‘Archimedes’, purportedly used to attack computers inside a Local Area Network (LAN), has been released by WikiLeaks. The latest batch is the seventh in the whistleblowing organization’s ‘Vault 7’ series. RELEASE: CIA ‘#Archimedes‘ system for exfiltration and browser hijacking. Includes manuals and binary signatures. https://t.co/XWr33GMGDN…
Read MoreThe U.S. Government Declares War on WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
The U.S. government is dramatically ratcheting up its rhetoric against whistleblowing news collective Wikileaks, announcing on Thursday that authorities are preparing new charges on which to arrest the group’s founder, Julian Assange. Assange has lived at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the last four years in order to avoid extradition and arrest. Now, in…
Read MoreNot Just Syria: 5 Huge News Stories to Keep an Eye on amid the Madness
by Carey Wedler and Nick Bernabe The world’s eyes and ears have once again turned toward Syria following last week’s chemical weapons attack and U.S. President Donald Trump’s subsequent air strikes on the Assad government. Mainstream media, independent media, and social media platforms are fixing fierce attention on the ongoing developments. These events undoubtedly deserve…
Read MoreWikiLeaks Reveals “Marble”: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks As Russian, Chinese, Arabic…
WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release contains a batch of documents, named ‘Marble’, which detail CIA hacking tactics and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages. The tool was in use as recently as 2016. Per the WikiLeaks release: “The source…
Read More#DarkSeaSkies: How the CIA Can Control Your MacBook in Just 29 Seconds
It’s known as DarkSeaSkies…. Hacking tools that allows the CIA access to Apple products. One knicknamed the “Sonic Screwdriver” gives an agent the ability to hack and remotely control a MacBook Air in less than half a minute. Delivered via “supply chain intercept or gift to the target,” DarkSeaSkies runs in the background and gives…
Read MoreWikileaks Published a List of Consumer Electronics “Targeted” by the CIA — Your Smart Phone and Computer Are Probably on It
Wikileaks has now posted “Identifying Hacking Targets of the CIA” which lists out “companies, products, tools, and terms that are mentioned in the Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed publication to date,” in order to inform people as to whether or not their smart phones, computers, gaming systems, television sets etc. can easily be turned…
Read More#Vault7: WikiLeaks Releases ‘Dark Matter’ Batch of CIA Hacking Tactics for Apple Products
WikiLeaks has released the latest batch of documents in its Vault 7 series of documents related to the CIA’s espionage programs. The latest release, dubbed ‘Dark Matter,’ reveals the specific techniques used to target Apple products. The release discloses the alleged details of methods employed by the CIA to compromise devices manufactured by Apple including…
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