WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Becomes Citizen of Ecuador
The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry says it has granted citizenship to Julian Assange. The reaction of the ministry comes one day after Quito reportedly issued an ID card to the WikiLeaks editor. The passport could provide Assange’s first step to obtaining diplomatic immunity, as Ecuador wants to resolve his indefinite embassy stay. The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in the … Continue reading
How the CIA Secretly Collects Our Biometric Data Revealed by WikiLeaks
The WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform released on Thursday a new batch of classified documents about the tools used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to secretly collect biometric data from US liaison services. According to the whistleblowing site, the released documents show one of the cyber operations the CIA conducts against liaison services which includes among many others the National … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Project Designed to take Control of Webcams and Microphones
Details of the CIA’s Dumbo project, a system that manipulates devices such as webcams and microphones on Microsoft Windows-operating systems, have been published by WikiLeaks. The program also corrupts video recordings, according to the leaked documents. The whistleblowing organization released the files as part of its Vault 7 series on the CIA’s hacking capabilities. According to Wikileaks, the technology is … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Releases Files on CIA Spying Geo-Location Malware for WiFi Devices
The WikiLeaks whistleblowing website published documents, showing how ELSA malware is allegedly used by US intelligence services to collect geolocation data from WiFi-enabled devices. The WikiLeaks whistleblowing website on Wednesday released a new batch of CIA documents from the so-called Vault 7 project, showing how ELSA malware is allegedly used by US intelligence services to collect geolocation data from WiFi-enabled … Continue reading
CIA’s Secret Cyberweapon Can Infiltrate World’s Most Secure Networks
WikiLeaks’ latest release in its Vault7 series details how the CIA’s alleged ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ program is being used to penetrate the most secure networks in the world. Brutal Kangaroo, a tool suite for Microsoft Windows, targets closed air gapped networks by using thumb drives, according to WikiLeaks. Air gapping is a security measure employed on one or more computers to … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Offers $100k for ‘Tapes’ of Private Trump-Comey Chats
Anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks has offered $100,000 for recordings of private conversations between US President Donald Trump and recently fired former FBI Director James Comey. The president alluded to such “tapes” in a tweet shortly after Comey’s dismissal, when he said the former director had “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations,” should Comey start telling the press … Continue reading
Google Says it Has Fixed Most of CIA’s Alleged Android Exploits
Android and Chrome users with the latest updates shouldn’t be worried about WikiLeaks’ data dump on the CIA, according to Google. The CIA won’t be able to hack into the latest Android devices, according to Google. The tech giant said Thursday that the CIA’s alleged exploits and malware detailed in WikiLeaks’ “Vault 7” release are already out of date. WikiLeaks … Continue reading
Wikileaks Claims CIA has ‘Weaponized’ 85% of World’s Smart Phones
The majority of the world’s smartphones have been “weaponized,” according to WikiLeaks, which revealed in its latest leak that the CIA went to extreme measures to utilize the Android OS for spying. Google’s Android operating system, used in 85 percent of the world’s smart phones, including Samsung and Sony, was found to have 24 ‘zero days’ – the code name … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Warns CIA Trying to Hack Cars for ‘Undetectable Assassinations’
In the explosive “Vault 7” CIA secrets published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, the organization has warned that the CIA, among a myriad of other intrusive exploits, has been investigating ways to hack and manipulate the control systems of cars and trucks for use in covert operations. According to WikiLeaks, the CIA’s interest in hacking vehicles is not specified, but could … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Publishes Thousands of What it Says are CIA Documents
WikiLeaks on Tuesday published thousands of documents purportedly taken from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, a dramatic release that appears to provide an eye-opening look at the intimate details of America’s cyberespionage toolkit. The dump could not immediately be authenticated by The Associated Press and the CIA declined comment, but WikiLeaks has a long track record of … Continue reading
