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The first line from the article: In March 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of files detailing the CIA’s spying operations and hacking tools. The leak,
by BrianGragg 5y ago
The first line from the article:
In March 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of files detailing the CIA’s spying operations and hacking tools. The leak, known as Vault 7, was the largest disclosure of classified information in the agency’s history. In April, Symantec publicly linked Vault 7 to an advanced threat actor named Longhorn. Kaspersky then announced it tracks the same actor as The Lamberts, and revealed the existence of an OS X implant called Green Lambert.
- 1cvmask 5y agoOne of the most important revelations in the Vault 7 was the CIA's false flag tooling to ascribe cyberattacks to say Russia, China etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
- khrbrt 5y agoThis is news to me. Do you know of a good article that summarizes Vault 7?
- severine 5y agoI mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
- striking 5y agoYeah, but that doesn't say what you think it says: > Cybersecurity writers, such as Ben Buchanan and Kevin Poulsen, were skeptical of [the false flag theories]. Poulsen wrote, "The leaked catalog isn't organized by country of origin, and the specific malware used by the Russian DNC hackers is nowhere on the list." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#False_flag_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#False_flag_theories
- boomboomsubban 5y agoEven if that one hack was carried out by Russia, the CIA still have tools to create false flag attacks.
- jimmygrapes 5y agoIt doesn't take CIA tools to change the properties of a Word document though
- 1cvmask 5y agohttps://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ https://www.itnews.com.au/news/wikileaks-dumps-cia-malware-obfuscation-code-456864 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/wikileaks-dumps-cia-malware-o... https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/56983/intelligence/wikileaks-vault7-cia-umbrage-team.html https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/56983/intelligence/wiki... https://cointelegraph.com/news/kim-dotcom-on-vault-7-cia-hurts-us-tech-bill-gates-must-tell-truth https://cointelegraph.com/news/kim-dotcom-on-vault-7-cia-hur...
- amatecha 5y agoOhhhh I see, I didn't connect the "lineage": Vault 7 leak from CIA, Symantec says stuff in Vault 7 is from Longhorn. Thanks for pointing out the obvious for me haha :)