Wikileaks 'reveals CIA hacking tools' - inc. how iPhones & Smart TVs are used for eavesdropping

[Yossarian]

Wikileaks has published details of what it says are wide-ranging hacking tools used by the CIA.

The alleged cyber-weapons are said to include malware that targets Windows, Android, iOS, OSX and Linux computers as well as internet routers.

Some of the software is reported to have been developed in-house, but the UK's MI5 agency is said to have helped build a spyware attack for Samsung TVs.

The effort to compromise Samsung's F8000 range of smart TVs was codenamed Weeping Angel, according to documents dated June 2014.

They describe the creation of a "fake-off" mode, designed to fool users into believing that their screens had been switched off.

Instead, the documents indicate, infected sets were made to covertly record audio, which would later be transferred over the internet to CIA computer servers once the TVs were fully switched back on, allowing their wi-fi links to re-establish.

It is also claimed that a specialised CIA unit was set up to target iPhones and iPads, allowing the agency to see a target's location, activate their device's camera and microphone, and read text communications.

Other claims say the CIA:

* was trying to find ways to infect vehicles' computer control systems. Wikileaks claims these might have been used for undetectable assassinations

* had found ways to infect "air-gapped" computers - machines that are not linked up to the internet or other insecure networks. Methods are said to have included hiding data in images or hidden parts of computer storage

* had developed attacks against popular anti-virus products

* had built up a library of hacking techniques "stolen" from malware developed in Russia and elsewhere

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39193008

 

[s28]

It's almost like they are scared of the people rather than interested in serving them.

 

[Yossarian]

It's almost like they are scared of the people rather than interested in serving them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

[KingKhanWC]

CIA is the biggest terrorist organisation in history. This is nothing to do with security but about controlling those who may oppose them.

 

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[Swanny]

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CIA is rumoured to be behind the assassination of JFK too. Especially since JFK opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba which resulted in deaths of several people trained by the CIA operatives