Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed (Wikileaks unveils the CIA)

Wikileaks ^ | 3/7/2017 | Wikileaks

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.

The first full part of the series, "Year Zero", comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina. It follows an introductory disclosure last month of CIA targeting French political parties and candidates in the lead up to the 2012 presidential election.

Recently, 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.

"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.

Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers. The agency's...

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Let the games begin.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

"The organization (Wiki)had teased the release in advance with strange messages about the release being "Year Zero", and references to "Vault 7".
It had planned to release the files later on but that plan was thrown off when its press conference came under cyber attack, Mr Assange claimed."

[allendale]

Either Brennan is arrested , tried and convicted or the harassment of the Trump Administration will continue.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Ping

[grania]

Who am I going to believe? WikiLeaks or the CIA/Obama?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3532292/posts

[dynoman]

This is so bad, CIA creates hacking tools that probably are cutting edge. But their management and security sucks so bad they lose the tools to who knows who, and ultimately to Wikileaks.

Who’s faults is this? Wikileaks?? No It’s the CIA’s fault, 100%.

[Red Badger]

... or the harassment of the Trump Administration will continue.

I'm sure that's gonna happen......................

[Red Badger]

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.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

“Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency...”

Since the imam-in-chief’s election and his appointment of fellow muslim Brennan in charge of the CIA.

[seeker41]

What if they were sold to level the playing field. That would be something obozo would like and encourage.

[RummyChick]

This give Trump the opportunity to effectively shut that part of it down.

[silverleaf]

Admiral Mike Rogers must have had a very interesting conversation with Trump when he flew up to NYC to visit

I wonder how he shielded it

[Prolixus]

Wikileaks Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed.

[Prolixus]

Better link: Wikileaks Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed.

[Whenifhow]

PING!!!

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Thanks, Tilted Irish Kilt

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Can someone post the entire Wikileaks announcement? The link does not work or the link is being overtaxed.

[lodi90]

Since the imam-in-chief’s election and his appointment of fellow muslim Brennan in charge of the CIA.

Since the imam-in-chief’s election and his appointment of fellow muslim Brennan in charge of the CIA.

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I believe the NSA is DOD while CIA is executive branch. Naturally, the kenyan would want his hand picked stooge Brennan to have the preeminence over DOD.

[hapnHal]

Got a question.....

Do they have smart phones that the CIA and other government agencies can’t hack?

If not, better get busy and start making them.

[I want to know]

Recently, 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.

And what will those who now have this arsenal be able to do with it? They now have the hacking capacity of the CIA.