If the CIA wants inside your Mac, it may not be enough that you so carefully avoided those infected email attachments or maliciously crafted web sites designed to plant spyware on your machine. Based on new documents in WikiLeaks’ ongoing release of CIA …
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Security is sacred: CIA, WikiLeaks, and what we can do about it
Geektime The documents outline security flaws in many popular consumer electronics like iPhones, Android phones, and Samsung smart TVs. These security flaws reportedly allow the government to spy on the owners of the products. What's most concerning isn't that … |
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New WikiLeaks dump builds confidence in our side's hacking skills
Hot Air Assuming, of course, that all the infamous hacking behavior really was real bad guys like China, Russia or North Korea and not our own good bad guys pretending to be bad, bad guys hacking our side. Apparently, see, there are electronic fingerprints … |
WikiLeaks may have dealt another blow to the CIA’s hacking operations by releasing files that allegedly show how the agency was masking its malware attacks.
On Friday, the site dumped the source code to the Marble Framework, a set of anti-forensic tools that WikiLeaks claims the CIA used last year.
The files do appear to show “obfuscation techniques” that can hide CIA-developed malicious coding from detection, said Jake Williams, a security researcher at Rendition InfoSec, who has been examining the files.
Every hacker, from the government-sponsored ones to amateurs, will use their own obfuscation techniques when developing malware, he said.
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