RE: The CIA and NyanCat: The hackers and tools of Vault 7's "Year Zero"
The wide variety of devices they attempted to hack. Cars, TVs, webcams, websites, implants?, etc.
They seem to have mostly hacked these things without knowledge of the manufacturer, particularly Apple devices.
The CIA was very interested in deceiving investigators, so they would employee techniques and software of rival organizations (like the Russian FSB).
Not just American devices are affected. MikroTik is just one example where the CIA developed tools to take over foreign devices too.
The CIA also developed custom hardware tools, such as the NyanCat, in addition to software. Who knows what kind of crazy embedded devices, and implants, were developed.
There's a lot of good technical stuff in Year Zero, but those are some key points I took from it all.
Thanks for this post, I love the fact that people are finding, spreading and analyzing this very important information about the CIA and how they are affecting the computer economy.