WikiLeaks continues to release revealing documents from it Vault 7 cache. This time around the organization introduces us to a CIA tool called Archimedes — previously known as Fulcrum.
WikiLeaks continues to release revealing documents from it Vault 7 cache. This time around the organization introduces us to a CIA tool called Archimedes — previously known as Fulcrum.
As before, there is little to confirm whether or not the tool is still in active use — or, indeed, if it has actually ever been used — but the documentation shows how it can be installed on a LAN to perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.
The manual itself explains how Archimedes works: ” Archimedes is used to redirect LAN traffic from a target’s computer through an attacker controlled computer before it is passed to the gateway. This enables the tool to inject a forged web server response that will redirect the target’s web browser to an arbitrary location. This technique is typically used to redirect the target to an exploitation server while providing the appearance of a normal browsing session.”
This particularly leak is somewhat less interesting than other than have appeared online, but by now it is possible that fatigue and de-sensitization have set in. Nonetheless, the documents published by WikiLeaks are worthy of attention.
Announcing the latest batch of documents — a series of guides to using Archimedes — WikiLeaks says:
You can check out the documentation for yourself over on the WikiLeaks website .
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