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Alleged CIA leaker’s attorneys now might have to become witnesses

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The bizarre legal wrangling in the case of an accused CIA leaker took another turn this week when lawyers for Joshua Schulte asked the court to appoint new representation in the event the existing attorneys need to testify at trial. Defense attorneys, in an Aug. 26 letter, ask Judge Paul Crotty of the Southern District of New York to divide the case and appoint new counsel over “an ethical issue” in the matter. Schulte was charged last year with allegedly leaking U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks, eventually resulting in the so-called Vault7 files. Later he was charged with conspiring to leak information from jail. The current moves are associated with those accusations. The attorneys now say Sabrina Schroff, who represents Schulte now, and Matthew Larsen, who previously consulted with Schulte, can testify to the defendant’s mental state before the alleged transmission of classified information from within Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. Understanding Schulte’s […]

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Wikileaks Unveils Project Protego: CIA’s Secret Missile Control System

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Every week since March Wikileaks has been leaking secrets from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which mainly focus on surveillance techniques and hacking tools employed by its agents.

However this time, the whistleblower organisation has released something different from its previous Vault 7 leaks, because it’s not about hacking and spying; instead, it’s a—Missile Control

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Cisco Finally Patches 0-Day Exploit Disclosed In Wikileaks-CIA Leak

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Cisco Systems has finally released an update for its IOS and IOS XE software to address a critical vulnerability, disclosed nearly two months back in the CIA Vault 7 leak, that affects more than 300 of its switch models.

The company identified the vulnerability in its product while analyzing “Vault 7” dump — thousands of documents and files leaked by Wikileaks, claiming to detail hacking

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Wikileaks Unveils CIA’s Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

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Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to target local networks.

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Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks

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Wikileaks has just published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, exposing the documentation and source code for a CIA project known as “Scribbles.”

Scribbles, a.k.a. the “Snowden Stopper,” is a piece of software allegedly designed to embed ‘web beacon’ t… Continue reading Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks→

Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks

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Wikileaks has just published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, exposing the documentation and source code for a CIA project known as “Scribbles.”

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Wikileaks Reveals How CIA Was Hacking Your iPhones And MacBooks

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As part of its “Vault 7” series, Wikileaks — the popular whistle-blowing platform — has just released another batch of classified documents focused on exploits and hacking techniques the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) designed to target Apple MacOS and iOS devices.

Dubbed “Dark Matter,” the leak uncovers macOS vulnerabilities and attack vectors developed by a special division of the CIA

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WikiLeaks Exposes Massive CIA Leak Including Hacking Tools

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WikiLeaks has dropped another massive bomb called “Vault7“, basically a massive CIA leak which covers documents, correspondence, hacking tools, exploits and much more. It details sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into smartphones, computers and even Smart TVs. The first installment published already contains…

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WikiLeaks left key details unredacted in CIA leak

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Though editors working on behalf of WikiLeaks removed a vast majority of the technical details previously attached to CIA documents the group published on Tuesday, it appears that several documents revealed sensitive details to anyone who accessed the files, according to a confidential analysis obtained by CyberScoop. “The censoring appears to have been done by a highly knowledgeable team or individual, indicating deep knowledge into cyber espionage, opsec, ITSec and creating indicator of compromise,” Kaspersky Lab researchers wrote in a report released Wednesday. “Nevertheless some pieces of data allowed us to identify different artifacts … the editors made several mistakes by leaving behind several uncensored details.” Artifact is a term used among information security professionals to describe digital forensic evidence, which in some instances may be helpful to better understand how a breach occurred and who was responsible. Some of the artifacts found in the leaked CIA documents have given researchers […]

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