Wikileaks Vault 7: Did you say anything about security?

Yesterday we mentioned about it Wikileaks Vault 7 the latest leaks revealing the CIA's hacking capabilities. One of the many remarkable things it can do is to bypass the encryption used by popular messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal.

So everyone who uses the applications WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Weibo, Confide ή Cloackman and believe their messages are encrypted will rather be disappointed as the leak indicates that the encryption layers they use can be circumvented by the techniques developed by the CIA.Wikileaks Vault 7

According to the archives released by , η CIA διαθέτει ειδικές ομάδες που λειτουργούν μόνο για τη δημιουργία malware με πρόθεση να αναλάβουν τον έλεγχο σε συσκευές όχι μόνο iPhone και Android αλλά και σε πολλές άλλες.

These teams use zero-day vulnerabilities found in operating systems, and they are constantly developing malware that can be used to bypass any encryption layers, messaging applications, and more.

Το WikiLeaks αναφέρει ότι τα hacking εργαλεία της CIA και και τα malware αναπτύχθηκαν από το Engineering Development Group (EDG), μια ομάδα ανάπτυξης λογισμικού στο Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), το οποίο είναι ένα τμήμα που ανήκει στη Διεύθυνση για την Ψηφιακή Καινοτομία ή Directorate for Innovation (DDI) and is based within the CIA.

EDG develops, tests and offers operational support for all backdoors, , malware, trojans, viruses and any other type of malicious software created by the CIA and used in its covert operations.

Another part of the CIA is Mobile Devices Branch, which has developed many remote attack methods targeting popular smartphones.

So the CIA can have the user's geolocation, audio and text communications. The Secret Service can also covertly activate the phone's camera and microphone and generally use it as a spying tool.

The CIA is reported to have created special sections who are working to discover ways around it ς του Android και του iOS. Το τμήμα του iOS κλάδος δημιούργησε ένα κακόβουλο λογισμικό που μπορεί να μολύνει, να ελέγχει και να αποσπά δεδομένα από iPhones, iPads και πολλά άλλα. Ομοίως, το τμήμα του Android έχει καταφέρει να μετατρέψει τα Android σε κατασκοπευτικές συσκευές αξιοποιώντας zero-day, τα οποία είτε έχουν αναπτυχθεί στο εσωτερικό της CIA ή έχουν δανειστεί από την Βρετανική GCHQ, την NSA ή αγοραστεί από zero day trading.

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