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Wikileaks exposes CIA hacking tools with Vault7 leak

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Wikileaks has unleashed the first part of the Vault7 series which details the CIA’s cyberweapon capabilities. Most devices are vulnerable and the CIA has way to read Signal messages too.
Wikileaks has published the first part in a series of leaks about the CIA. The first part of the series is called “Year Zero” and includes 8.761 documents and files from an isolated and highly secure network located in the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Virginia. Wikileaks refers to the yet-to-be-released remainder of the series as “Vault7”.
Some of the hacking accomplishments of the CIA that are detailed in the release include:
After the Ed Snowden leaks many people turned to encrypted communications; unfortunately, these won’t help you against the CIA. The techniques outlined above allows the agency to bypass the encryption of messenger apps including WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and others.

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