Yesterday we mentioned about it Wikileaks Vault 7 the latest leaks revealing the CIA's hacking capabilities. One of the many remarkable things the service can do is bypass it encryption που χρησιμοποιούν δημοφιλείς εφαρμογές ανταλλαγής μηνυμάτων, όπως η WhatsApp και η 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.
According to the archives released by Wikileaks, η CIA διαθέτει ειδικές ομάδες που λειτουργούν μόνο για τη δημιουργία malware με πρόθεση να αναλάβουν τον έλεγχο σε Appliances not only iPhone and Android but also many others.
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.
WikiLeaks reports that CIA and malware hacking tools have been developed by the Engineering Development Group (EDG), a software development team at the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), which is a division of the Directorate for Digital Innovation or Directorate for Digital Innovation (DDI) and is headquartered within the CIA.
EDG develops, tests and offers operational support for all backdoors, exploits, 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 camera and microphone of the phone and in general to use the device as a spying tool.
The CIA is reported to have created special sections working to find ways to bypass Android and iOS security. The iOS branch has created malicious software that can infect, control, and extract data from iPhones, iPads, and more. Similarly, the Android section has been able to turn Android into zero-day spy devices that have either been deployed within the CIA or borrowed from the British GCHQ, the NSA or bought by zero day marketing companies.
