Security News > 2017 > May > WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows (The Hackers News)
2017-05-19 04:18
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, detailing a spyware framework – which "provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers" – allegedly being used by the CIA that works against every version of Microsoft's Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 10. Dubbed Athena/Hera, the spyware has been designed to take full control over the
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