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Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking 'Vault 7' hacking tools to Wikileaks
2018-06-19 08:18

A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak of classified information in...

Ex-CIA Employee Suspected in WikiLeaks 'Vault7' Leak
2018-05-16 09:59

A former employee of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is believed to have provided WikiLeaks the files made public by the whistleblower organization as part of its ‘Vault 7’ leak, which...

Adrian Lamo Dies at 37 — Hacker Who Exposed Wikileaks Informant
2018-03-16 18:03

Adrian Lamo, the hacker who tipped off the FBI about Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, dies at the age of 37, according to a Facebook post by a family member. "With great sadness and a...

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...

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...

Oops! WikiLeaks Website Defaced By OurMine (The Hackers News)
2017-08-31 00:10

OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for defacing WikiLeaks website. The notorious hacking group, OurMine, is known for breaching into high-profile figures and companies' social media...

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...

WikiLeaks Details Mac OS X Hacking Tools Used by CIA (Security Week)
2017-07-28 12:13

The latest round of documents published by WikiLeaks as part of a leak dubbed by the organization “Vault 7” describes several tools allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to...