WikiLeaks Shows How the CIA Hides the Origins of
its Hacking Attacks and 'Disguise them as
Russian or Chinese Activity'
By
Mail Online
March 31,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Mail"
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WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files
today which it claims show the CIA went to great
lengths to disguise its own hacking attacks and
point the finger at Russia, China, North Korea
and Iran.
The 676 files
released today are part of WikiLeaks' Vault 7
tranche of files and they claim to give an
insight into the CIA's Marble software, which
can forensically disguise viruses, trojans and
hacking attacks.
WikiLeaks
says the source code suggests
Marble has test examples in Chinese, Russian,
Korean, Arabic and Farsi (the Iranian
language).
It says: 'This
would permit a forensic attribution double
game, for example by pretending that the
spoken language of the malware creator was
not American English, but Chinese.'
This could
lead forensic investigators into wrongly
concluding that CIA hacks were carried out
by the Kremlin, the Chinese government,
Iran, North Korea or Arabic-speaking terror
groups such as ISIS.
WikiLeaks,
whose founder Julian Assange remains holed
up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, said
Vault 7 was the most comprehensive release
of US spying files ever made public.
Earlier this month WikiLeaks published
thousands of documents claiming to
reveal top CIA hacking secrets,
including the agency's ability to
infiltrate encrypted apps like Whatsapp,
break into smart TVs and phones and
program self-driving cars.
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It
also claims the CIA can bypass the
encryption of Whatsapp, Signal,
Telegram, Wiebo, Confide and Cloakman by
hacking the smart phones the
applications run on.
The CIA was also looking at hacking the
vehicle control systems used in modern
cars and trucks, WikiLeaks claims.
Wikileaks said the release of
confidential documents on the agency
already eclipses the total number of
pages published over the first three
years of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks.
Experts who've started to sift through
the material said it appeared legitimate
- and that the release was almost
certain to shake the CIA.
The
views expressed in this article are solely those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of Information Clearing House.
WikiLeaks exposes CIA
anti-forensics tool
: It creates a means for virus writers to
pretend that the malware was created by a
speaker of a range of foreign languages
(Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi).
