Security News > 2017 > April > WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Grasshopper Windows Hacking Framework (The Hackers News)
2017-04-07 09:52
As part of its Vault 7 series of leaked documents, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today released a new cache of 27 documents allegedly belonged to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Named Grasshopper, the latest batch reveals a CLI-based framework developed by the CIA to build "customised malware" payloads for breaking into Microsoft's Windows operating systems and bypassing
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