Scammers are getting more creative and persuasive in their attempt to trick the potential victim into conducting a payment, typically in Bitcoin. All recent scams delivered via email have this in common – creating a sense of fear and urgency…
Yesterday WikiLeaks exposed another utility from the Vault 7 software collection known as the CouchPotato spying tool. It is used by the intelligence agency to spy on Internet video streams which is a serious privacy invasion. Related Story: CIA Spies…
Wikileaks revealed 3 more spyware documents originating from the CIA Vault 7 leaks. The release is part of a project called “Imperial” that includes three advanced hacking tool used to spy on users worldwide. They are called Achilles, SeaPea and…
WikiLeaks reported that the CIA is involved in the creation and coordination of a dangerous Android malware called HighRise. The report showcases the full features of HighRise as well as a copy of the Users Guide. Related Story: BothanSpy, Gyrfalcon…
BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon are the names of the latest CIA hacking tools unearthed by WikiLeaks and the already legendary Vault7 dump. The tools are in fact implants designed to steal SSH credentials from two operating systems – Windows and Linux.…
OutlawCountry is the name of the latest CIA exploit revealed by the WikiLeaks. Unlike ELSA which was designed to target Windows systems to determine the location of a particular user, OutlawCountry targets Linux systems. According to a leaked user manual,…
Meet Athena, the latest file unearthed in WikiLeak’s Vault 7 inventory of CIA hacking tools. Athena is a surveillance (spying) tool which has been created to capture communications from computers running Windows XP to machines on Windows 10, researchers say.…
The WikiLeaks saga continues. The non-profit previously promised to collaborate with tech companies to address the exploits in the CIA Vault 7 data dump. However, nothing of the sorts has been done so far. There were multiple indicators within the…
One of biggest scandals of 2017, the one involving WikiLeaks and the CIA, is escalating by the minute. It is now known that one of the teams of the agency specializes in reusing bits of code and techniques taken from……
