But one former senior government official told FCW that there are early indicators the information is authentic. The release does not include any actual exploit code or tools, so many experts are reserving judgment on the validity of the material and what WikiLeaks actually has.
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Those products include "Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.” and European company products," the group said. “’Year Zero’ introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of ‘zero day’ weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. "This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA," stated WikiLeaks. "Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation," stated WikiLeaks in its press statement announcing the release of the documents. The initial release, "Year Zero," includes 8,761 documents and files said to be from the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence. WikiLeaks has released a trove of documents it claims detail the bulk of the Central Intelligence Agency's hacking tools and program data.Īccording to WikiLeaks, "Vault 7" will be an ongoing release of CIA documents and tools.