#Vault7: CIA’s secret cyberweapon can infiltrate world’s most secure networks

alchemy20 (45)in #piracy • 8 years ago

Published time: 22 Jun, 2017

https://www.rt.com/viral/393556-vault7-cia-brutal-kangaroo/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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WikiLeaks’ latest release in its Vault7 series details how the CIA’s alleged ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ program is being used to penetrate the most secure networks in the world.

Brutal Kangaroo, a tool suite for Microsoft Windows, targets closed air gapped networks by using thumb drives, according to WikiLeaks.

Air gapping is a security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks.

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Brutal Kangaroo

While it may not appear to be the most efficient CIA project, it allows the intelligence agency to infiltrate otherwise unreachable networks.

This method is comparable to the Stuxnet virus, a cyberweapon purportedly built by the US and Israel. Stuxnet is thought to have caused substantial damage to Iran's nuclear program in 2010.

Naturally this has nothing to do with national security or terrorism any buzzwords. This is industrial espionage with the cooperation of tech companies. Imagine the foreign lawsuits if one could survive to file one?