Vault 7: WikiLeaks reveals CIA's secret hacking tools and spy operations
Have you been trusting apps like Signal or Confide to keep your messages safe? Well, the CIA doesn't give a fuck! In what's being touted as a Snowden 2.0 level leak Wikileaks has unveiled the zeroday hacking tools used by the CIA to compromise digital privacy.
From BetaNews
WikiLeaks has unleashed a treasure trove of data to the internet, exposing information about the CIA's arsenal of hacking tools. Code-named Vault 7, the first data is due to be released in serialized form, starting off with "Year Zero" as part one. A cache of over 8,500 documents and files has been made available via BitTorrent in an encrypted archive.Read full article here: https://betanews.com/2017/03/07/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-year-zero/The plan had been to release the password at 9:00am ET today, but when a scheduled online press conference and stream came "under attack" prior to this, the password was released early. Included in the "extraordinary" release are details of the zero day weapons used by the CIA to exploit iPhones, Android phones, Windows, and even Samsung TVs to listen in on people. Routers, Linux, macOS -- nothing is safe.
WikiLeaks explains how the "CIA's hacking division" -- or the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) as it is officially known -- has produced thousands of weaponized pieces of malware, Trojans, viruses and other tools. It's a leak that's essentially Snowden 2.0. WikiLeaks says: "This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA."
Julian Assange's organization had been promoting the upcoming leak and accompanying press conference on Twitter. When the press conference came under attack, Plan B was brought into play meaning that the required password was released earlier than expected:
Download the torrent and extract it using 7-Zip. The password you'll need to decrypt the archive is: SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds
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