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Firstly, it was Achilles, a dedicated solution which the CIA had used to integrate Trojan apps into legitimate DMG files which Apple customers have used to install apps on their computers.

Mac users could be at risk, WikiLeaks finds more hacking tools

The dump by WikiLeaks has indicated that CIA’s hacking tools were part of a project called “Imperial."

30 Jul 2017 6:40 PM

WikiLeaks helped Donald Trump win US presidential elections: study

Trump supporters were more likely to share news reports from less credible sources, the study found.

13 Jul 2017 7:21 PM

Portraits created using DNA of traansgender US Army soldier will greet visitors at exhibition in New York City (Photo: Instagram)

Chelsea Manning 3D portrait up in exhibition

Manning's 3D portrait will be put up at New York gallery that has been created using her DNA.

12 Jul 2017 7:05 PM

This means it is difficult to identify affected systems.

Wikileaks Vault 7: CIA’s “Pandemic” tool now replaces files with malware

The tool is called “Pandemic,” which is capable of installing a file system filter driver on a network.

04 Jun 2017 3:32 PM

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (Photo: AP)

Prez Moreno says 'hacker' Assange can continue staying in Ecuadorian embassy

In May, Swedish lawyers dropped a 7-yr rape allegation against Assange withdrawing the European arrest warrant that made him fly to Ecuador.

30 May 2017 1:44 PM

The election victory of Moreno, who took office on Wednesday, came as a relief for Assange after the socialist president's conservative rival had vowed to kick him out of Ecuador's London embassy. (Photo: File)

Ecuador President Moreno tells Assange to ‘not meddle’ in country’s affairs

President Lenin Moreno said that Assange’s status did not allow him to interfere in any country’s politics.

26 May 2017 2:42 PM

The malware in question was developed by the CIA as a part of its collaboration with a US-based company called Siege Technologies.

WikiLeaks reveals CIA malware targeting all Windows versions

This basically means the CIA can pretty much have full control of a Windows system

21 May 2017 5:23 PM

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Photo: AFP)

WikiLeaks' Assange will be arrested if he leaves Ecuador's embassy: UK police

Assange, 45, has been holed up in the embassy since 2012 after skipping bail to avoid extradition to Sweden.

19 May 2017 3:51 PM

British police have said they will arrest Assange as soon as he walks out of the embassy because he has broken his conditions for bail. (Photo: AP)

Swedish prosecutors discontinue 7-year rape probe against WikiLeaks' Assange

Julian Assange has always denied the 2010 allegations, which he feared would see him extradited to the United States.

19 May 2017 3:45 PM

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. (Photo: AP)

The inside drama of damaging WikiLeaks

Poitras first premiered the film a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was received largely positively.

06 May 2017 1:21 AM

Did US keep secret Indian Army data leak to China?

While the US aircraft survived the collision, it had to force-land at Lingshui airfield on Hainan Island inside Chinese territory.

24 Apr 2017 2:26 AM

Symantec said it had connected at least 40 attacks in 16 countries to the tools obtained by WikiLeaks.

CIA-linked hacking tools attributed to 40 cyber attacks

US security firm Symantec points usage of hacking toolkit in at least 16 countries.

11 Apr 2017 1:30 PM

Symantec claims that the attack had been done by Longhorn, famous for theit cyber attacks on government as well as private sector organizations.

Symantec points usage of leaked CIA spy toolkit in 40 operations

The computer security firm confirms Middle East countries to be the most popular targets for the leaked spy software.

11 Apr 2017 11:18 AM

WikiLeaks just dumped CIA's Windows hacking tool online

Wikileaks released 27 documents revealing a set of software tools codenamed “Grasshoper” used to customise malware for Windows computers

08 Apr 2017 6:28 PM

Apple said purported hacking vulnerabilities disclosed by WikiLeaks this week have all been fixed in recent iPhones and Mac computers.

Apple: Software flaws in latest WikiLeaks docs are all fixed

Apple said the flaw was fixed with the release of the iPhone 3GS a year later.

25 Mar 2017 10:30 AM

The documents provide a glimpse into the workings of the CIA (Photo: AP)

CIA able to permanently infect Apple Mac computers: WikiLeaks

The publication of the documents sparked a US counterintelligence investigation into how the documents leaked out.

24 Mar 2017 7:58 AM

In the past, spy agencies like the CIA could have hacked servers at WhatsApp or similar services to see what people were saying.

What the CIA WikiLeaks dump tells us: Encryption works

Services such as Facebook's WhatsApp followed the earlier example of Apple's iMessage and took the extra step of encrypting data

11 Mar 2017 2:25 PM

The WikiLeaks release has set off an intense probe into how the materials -- which detailed how the CIA focuses on breaking into personal electronics like smartphones -- got away from the agency.

WikiLeaks revelations put CIA on back foot

It was the fourth major leak of top secret materials from US spy agencies in less than four years.

11 Mar 2017 1:42 PM

Android, Chrome security flaws fixed: Google

Google believes it has already protected people using Android-powered phones and its Chrome OS from many of the security weaknesses.

10 Mar 2017 10:46 AM

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been staying at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, since 2012. (Photo: AFP)

WikiLeaks: CIA has targeted everyday gadgets for snooping

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would neither confirm nor deny the documents were genuine, or comment on their content

08 Mar 2017 8:34 AM

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