Security News > 2017 > July > WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Teams Up With Tech to Collect Ideas For Malware Development (The Hackers News)
2017-07-19 04:08
As part of its ongoing Vault 7 leaks, the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks today revealed about a CIA contractor responsible for analysing advanced malware and hacking techniques being used in the wild by cyber criminals. According to the documents leaked by WikiLeaks, Raytheon Blackbird Technologies, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor, submitted nearly five such reports to
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