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Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations

posted by on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the always-on-our-side dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard. Twice.

Now, according to BBC, Wikileaks has released another incredible piece of [the CIA] arsenal. Wikileaks reportedly released the code that the CIA uses to disguise the origins of a computer virus as a part of Vault 7.

These hacking tools reportedly include decoy languages like Russian to disguise the national origins of the cyber attack or malware. The release may disrupt the CIA's current operations and reveal previous cyber operations.

Source: https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/04/wikileaks-disrupt-cia/

Also at Ars Technica

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by charon on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:10PM

    by charon (5660) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:10PM (#488795) Journal
    Maybe someone else with a similar nick? Using my powers for good, I can see that MrPlow [soylentnews.org] has never made a comment. If he had, I'd be worried about the AIpocalypse.
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