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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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 05 2017, @12:54AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 05 2017, @12:54AM (#488927) Journal
    The thing is, Milo didn't add much value to this story - there's some Wikileaks tweets in addition to the BBC story. And I have really low standards for web design, but his style is coyote ugly. In the article itself, there's at least three different fonts used, text size varies from paragraph to paragraph, and haphazard use of bold and italics. Not to mention that I really need to start ad blocking.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 05 2017, @10:31AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 05 2017, @10:31AM (#489081) Homepage Journal

    The thing is, Milo didn't add much value to this story...

    This is true. Neither did most of the other secondary sources who reported it. I picked Milo as a source primarily because it's a public service to have those who are happy to ignore a message and focus on the messenger outed as such in the community.

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