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Wikileaks has released a series of documents that strongly suggest that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been engaged in hacking Android, Apple’s iOS and MacOS operating systems, Linux, Windows and «even Samsung TVs, which are turned into cover microphones».
The 8,761 document dump has been published as part of its ‘Year Zero’ campaign, and is just the first part in a series of leaks on the agency that Wikileaks has dubbed ‘Vault 7’.
Wikileaks claims that Year Zero reveals full details of the CIA’s ‘global covert hacking program’ , including ‘weaponised exploits’ used against operating systems including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows and «even Samsung TVs, which are turned into cover microphones».
CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden has suggested that the document dump looks convincing: «What @Wikileaks has here is genuinely a big deal. Looks authentic,» he tweeted.
According to the documents, the CIA’s Mobile Devices Branch has created multiple tools for hacking both Android and iOS smartphones, enabling it to remotely acquire location data, audio and text communications, and to switch on the phones’ camera and microphones at will.
