It will be a while until interested parties - Hackaday included - can make sense of this leak, but until then WikiLeaks has published a directory of this release. This is the documentation for the CIA’s cyberwarfare program, and there are more leaks to come. It is not an exaggeration to say this is the most significant leak from a government agency since Snowden, and possibly since the Pentagon Papers. The purpose of such tools is speculative but could be used to send a moving car off the road. Additionally, the CIA has also developed tools to take over vehicle control systems. The ‘Weeping Angel’ exploit for Samsung smart TVs, “places the target TV in a ‘Fake-Off’ mode, so that the owner falsely believes the TV is off when it is on.” This Fake-Off mode enables a microphone in the TV, records communications in the room, and sends these recordings to a CIA server.
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Of note, the CIA has developed numerous 0-day exploits for iOS and Android devices. The documents, available on the WikiLeaks site and available as a torrent, detail the extent of the CIA’s hacking program. While Vault 7 is only the first part in a series of leaks of documents from the CIA, this leak is itself massive. The release, called ‘Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed’, is the CIA’s hacking arsenal. The latest from WikiLeaks is the largest collection of documents ever released from the CIA.