Wikileaks Unveils 'Vault 7': "The Largest Ever Publication Another Snowden Emerges

Zero Hedge ^ | 03/07/17 | Tyler Durden

[Enlightened1]

Key Highlights from the Vault 7 release so far:

 

"Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.

 

Wikileaks claims that the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.

By the end of 2016, the CIA's hacking division, which formally falls under the agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other "weaponized" malware. Such is the scale of the CIA's undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than that used to run Facebook.

 

The CIA had created, in effect, its "own NSA" with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified.

 

Once a single cyber 'weapon' is 'loose' it can spread around the world in seconds, to be used by rival states, cyber mafia and teenage hackers alike.

Snowden 2.0?

[Enlightened1]

The link has A LOT of information and the vault has only been open about 40 minutes.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/wikileaks-hold-press-conference-vault-7-release-8am-eastern

[samtheman]

I wonder if there’s any spying-on-Trump in there.

[Enlightened1]

I guess we will find out?

[allendale]

Its necessary to arrest Brennan, try and convict him in order to identify and remove the Obama commissars and moles that remain in the security agencies and continue to do grave harm to the American people.

[scooby321]

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839117384824852480

[Beach333]

From the Wikileaks article:
“As an example, specific CIA malware revealed in “Year Zero” is able to penetrate, infest and control both the Android phone and iPhone software that runs or has run presidential Twitter accounts. The CIA attacks this software by using undisclosed security vulnerabilities (”zero days”) possessed by the CIA but if the CIA can hack these phones then so can everyone else who has obtained or discovered the vulnerability. As long as the CIA keeps these vulnerabilities concealed from Apple and Google (who make the phones) they will not be fixed, and the phones will remain hackable.”

[silverleaf]

Jay-sus

No wonder that by 2013 even Maxine Waters knew that obama had compiled a massive data base that knew “everything about everyone”

I just wonder what kind of power use is being racked up by the equipment (former WHY systems now removed) in the basement of that house he rented in Kalorama?

[silverleaf]

Jay-sus

No wonder that by 2013 even Maxine Waters knew that obama had compiled a massive data base that knew “everything about everyone”

I just wonder what kind of power use is being racked up by the equipment (former WH systems now removed) in the basement of that house he rented in Kalorama?

[Jimmy The Snake]

Is this part of the uproar over Trump and his phone? Maybe that is the wire tap. A phone hack.

[angcat]

Is there a link to this new site?

[ptsal]

bookmark Vault 7 Wikileaks

[nhwingut]

Sounds like a set up to me.

CIA: Damn shame if someone stole our entire database on Trump.

[Beach333]

The article states that the hacking material has been circulating among the intelligence community in an unauthorized fashion. One of those people gave it to Wikileaks. There may be no telling who actually did the hack. Wikileaks says there were over 5000 users registered to use it.

[Carthego delenda est]

CIA has hacked into vehicle and medical equipment computer systems, making assasinations easy and untraceable. Michael Hastings for example.

[maine-iac7]

Sounds like a set up to me. CIA: Damn shame if someone stole our entire database on Trump.

First thought that flashed across my mind

[Zathras]

All run from the new NSA facility in Utah.
90% chance Reid and McCain are involved in it.

[samtheman]

thanks for the twitter link

[GBA]

How nice we finally get to meet ourselves and the monster(s) within!

This will be an interesting reveal (nicely set up by President Trump, btw), with many predictable steps and the same ol' familiar personalities explaining it all away at each and every step.

Otoh, perhaps honesty will be recongnized as the best policy?
Yeah, maybe, but probably not...at least not at first. Lol.
(I probably shouldn't laugh, but it's hard not to.)

Proverbs 6:12

12 A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13 who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
Proverbs 6:12-16 New International Version (NIV)

[Cementjungle]

I still can’t find one single mention of this on CNN’s site (or on their Twitter). Amazing... especially since this is at least as big as the Snowden breach.