WikiLeaks publishes massive ‘Vault 7’ CIA cracking trove. Documents major security breaches.
WikiLeaks has published a trove of nearly 9,000 documents which it claims detail cyber espionage and warfare capabilities of the US CIA, many of which stand against previous government agreements on the sharing of security vulnerability information. WikiLeaks has released what it claims to be the largest ever publication of confidential documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covering a large proportion of its electronic espionage and warfare arsenal.
Dubbed Vault 7 by the organisation, the document trove is being released in dribs and drabs, beginning with a nearly 9,000-strong release WikiLeaks has codenamed ‘Year Zero,’ but has already – if true – revealed much about the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence. Documents released so far by WikiLeaks include details of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by the CIA for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and other operating systems, which the CIA had refused to share with manufacturers in order to continue exploiting them – leaving users at risk of attack both from the CIA itself and from anyone who got their hands on the exploits, either through independent discovery or via leaks from the CIA’s trove of attack code.
‘ There is an extreme proliferation risk in the development of cyber ‘weapons’.
