Security News > 2017 > May > WikiLeaks Reveals 'AfterMidnight' & 'Assassin' CIA Windows Malware Frameworks (The Hackers News)
2017-05-15 01:33
When the world was dealing with the threat of the self-spreading WannaCry ransomware, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA Vault 7 leaks, detailing two apparent CIA malware frameworks for the Microsoft Windows platform. Dubbed "AfterMidnight" and "Assassin," both malware programs are designed to monitor and report back actions on the infected remote host computer running the Windows
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