A researcher made an elite hacking tool out of the info in the Vault 7 leak
When WikiLeaks published a cache of more than 8,000 CIA documents in 2017 detailing U.S. hacking capabilities, security experts complained that the organization had possibly produced a technical blueprint on how to recreate the government’s elite-level tools. Wayne Ronaldson has made it a reality. Ronaldson, who looks for corporate clients’ vulnerabilities as “red team” leader at Melbourne-based offensive security company Loop Secure, pored over many of the so-called Vault 7 documents to find the Assassin program. The CIA described Assassin as an automated implant tool capable of monitoring computers running Microsoft Windows for long periods of time without detection, sending periodic updates to its operator. Ronaldson, using Assassin as the model for his own intelligence-gathering tool, studied the leaked CIA documents and consulted with industry friends about how to make his own cyber-espionage weapon. Next week, nearly 16 months after he began the process, Ronaldson plans to unveil Operation Overwatch during a presentation at the 2019 […]
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