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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. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.

"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. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.

Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers. The agency's hacking division freed it from having to disclose its often controversial operations to the NSA (its primary bureaucratic rival) in order to draw on the NSA's hacking capacities.



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Is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling we're in the midst of a real cyber war right now?

Why hasn't there been a leak dump committed against Russia yet?
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When I saw your first post, I was reminded of "Area 51" and "Hanger 18" But there is obviously something going on here. Of course, I must admit I am no expert of Wiki Leaks, so I don't know how accurate they are. Will try to do a little more digging and see what I come up with.
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I doubt this Vault 7 release is part of the cyber war between the U.S. and Russia if that's what you mean. Wikileaks indicates a Gov't contractor released it. There's a possibility of a "war" between the intelligence community and the President when seeing leaks about Russia after Trump castigates those agencies. We'll probably know only a small sliver of what's really going on, but it is interesting. Consider with all the cyber capabilities of the CIA, they are probably lame compared to the NSA. :P
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