Wikileaks Exposes CIA Hacking Tools

Wikileaks Exposes CIA Hacking Tools

After the Shadow Brokers publicly released a cache of NSA hacking tools, WikiLeaks reveals those of the CIA. On March 7, WikiLeaks announced it "begins its new series of leaks on the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Code-named "Vault 7", 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," read the publication.

"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 US 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.

"By the end of 2016, the CIA's hacking division […] had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other 'weaponized' malware. […] The CIA had created, in effect, its 'own NSA' with even less accountability."