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Former CIA Agent Arrested With Top Secret Info
2018-01-17 13:22

US authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorized notebook that had the identities of undercover...

Vault 8: WikiLeaks starts releasing source code of alleged CIA cyber weapons
2017-11-10 19:29

WikiLeaks is starting a new series of leaks, dubbed Vault 8, containing source code and materials allegedly stolen from the CIA. The Vault 8 leaks will ostensibly cover “source code and analysis...

WikiLeaks Says CIA Impersonated Kaspersky Lab
2017-11-09 21:27

WikiLeaks has resumed its CIA leaks and it has now started publishing source code and other files associated with tools allegedly developed by the intelligence agency. read more

Vault 8: WikiLeaks Releases Source Code For Hive - CIA's Malware Control System
2017-11-09 09:06

Almost two months after releasing details of 23 different secret CIA hacking tool projects under Vault 7 series, Wikileaks today announced a new Vault 8 series that will reveal source codes and...

British Teen Admits Trying to Hack CIA Chief
2017-10-06 17:06

A teenager admitted in a British court on Friday to trying to hack into the computers of top US officials, including former CIA chief John Brennan, from his home in the East Midlands region of...

Hacker Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI & CIA Director Gets 5-Year in Prison
2017-09-09 03:35

Remember "Crackas With Attitude"? The hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of senior officials at the FBI, the CIA, and the White House, among...

Wikileaks Unveils Project Protego: CIA's Secret Missile Control System (The Hackers News)
2017-09-07 04:20

Every week since March Wikileaks has been leaking secrets from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which mainly focus on surveillance techniques and hacking tools employed by its...

CIA's "AngelFire" Modifies Windows' Boot Sector to Load Malware (Security Week)
2017-08-31 17:04

Wikileaks on Thursday published documents detailing AngelFire, a tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to load and execute implants on Windows-based systems. read more

AngelFire: CIA Malware Infects System Boot Sector to Hack Windows PCs (The Hackers News)
2017-08-31 05:33

A team of hackers at the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, allegedly used a Windows hacking tool against its targets to gain persistent remote access. As part of its Vault 7 leaks, WikiLeaks...

WikiLeaks: CIA Secretly Collected Data From Liaison Services (Security Week)
2017-08-24 14:42

WikiLeaks has published another round of Vault 7 documents, this time describing a tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to secretly collect biometric data from the...