Security News > 2017 > June > Wikileaks Reveals CIA Malware that Hacks Linux Computers (The Hackers News)
2017-06-30 13:03
WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing an alleged CIA project that allowed the agency to computers running the Linux operating systems. Dubbed OutlawCountry, the project allows the CIA hackers to redirect all outbound network traffic on the targeted computer to CIA controlled computer systems for exfiltrate and infiltrate data. <!-- adsense -
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