Security News > 2017 > June > Here's How CIA Malware Tracks Geo-Location of its Targets (The Hackers News)
2017-06-28 06:03
WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, and this time the whistleblowing website has unveiled a classified malware for that tracks geo-location of targeted PCs and laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system. In short, the malware does it by capturing the IDs of nearby public hotspots and then matching them with the global database of public Wi-Fi
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