Vault 7 is frightnening
From what I can see, it looks like smart TVs and smartphones have been compromised.
PCs, Macs, Linux machines might be compromised too, but that's more fuzzy...
I thought it was 2017, but I guess it's 1984.
I hope antivirus companies can get on this ASAP.
We need to band together and fix this. They can't do this to us. We will not go quietly into the night.
The infosec community's been loudly yelling about the terrible security for IoT devices for years. People buy them without paying any heed to the security of them. Buyer beware? :)
They are, of course, by the CIA as well as every other well-funded group on the planet. There are markets where these exploits are traded.
AV software won't help you when your OS or firmware is compromised, sorry.