BREAKING: Wikileaks Reveals Huge Trove of CIA Secrets … It’s BAD
Wikileaks just released what it is claiming is the full hacking capacity of the CIA in a shocking 8,000-page disclosure they claim is “the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.”
The 8,761 documents and files were released as “Vault 7 Part 1” and titled “Year Zero.” They were obtained from an “isolated, high-security network” at the CIA’s facility in Langley, Virginia, a press release from the website claimed. The documents had been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors, one of whom “recently” gave the archive to WikiLeaks.
The collection includes information on CIA-developed malware — bearing names such as “Assassin” and “Medusa” — intended to target iPhones, Android phones, smart TVs and Microsoft, Mac and Linux operating systems, among others, Fox News is reporting.
An entire unit in the CIA is devoted to inventing programs to hack data from Apple products, according to WikiLeaks.
Some of the hacking programs can reportedly turn electronic devices into recording and transmitting stations to use as espionage, with information sent back to the CIA. Fox News reports that one document appears to show the CIA was trying to “infect” vehicle control systems in cars and trucks.
WikiLeaks hinted that the capabilities revealed in the disclosure could have even darker utility than simply spying. “It would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations,” the release stated.
“The site said the CIA additionally failed to disclose security vulnerabilities and bugs to major U.S. software manufacturers, violating an Obama administration commitment made in January 2014. Instead, the agency used the software vulnerabilities — which could also be exploited by rival agencies, nations and groups — for its own ends, WikiLeaks said.
“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 WikiLeaks release stated.
Wikileaks said their source released the files because they believe questions surrounding the CIA’s reach “urgently need to be debated in public,” which is a similar concern echoed by other leakers.
Fox News reports that some of the files include redacted information, such as tens “of thousands of CIA targets and attack machines throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States.”
Source: The Federalist Papers