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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:25PM (#488867)

    I don't think Milo has seen Kyle and AFAIK his boyfriend is a black dude so, no, not so much white supremacist there LOL.

    lol, just how much has political correctness infected your brain that you think fetishized tokenism is equality?

    milo is just a lame ass edgelord, guy probably isn't even gay.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:04AM (#489066)

    No true Scots... erm, gay would ...