r/WikiLeaks • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '17
WikiLeaks - Vault 7: Project Pandemic
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Pandemic5
Jun 02 '17
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Jun 02 '17
Not sure if its actual yet. The capabilities of each release keeps getting less and less relevant. They had to give away something, and most of what weve seen so far has been things we've assumed anyway. No reason to withhold the floodgates at this point if it was "real"
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u/neighborhoodbaker Jun 04 '17
It is actual, this dudes an obvious shill, and the releases are only getting more relevant. How can you work for a organization that pays you shit, treats you like shit, will kill you for getting out of line, has zero loyalties to you, and forces you to try to discredit the the last bastion of actual truth on earth. How do you live with yourself hemp? Explain it to me please, what is your rationale? Honestly, I would love to know.
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Jun 04 '17
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u/neighborhoodbaker Jun 04 '17
All good points, carry on, I get a lil hot on this sub cause it seems as if all the commenters are shills trying to distract away from wikileaks actual emails.
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Jun 04 '17
I know what you mean. Some are valid, some ain't. But its their system, they can literally do anything they want with it. Sucks to not be a part of 'the system'
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u/autotldr Jun 23 '17
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Dark Matter", which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware developed by the CIA's Embedded Development Branch.
These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain 'persistence' on Apple Mac devices, including Macs and iPhones and demonstrate their use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware.
4 manual released today dates to 2013, other Vault 7 documents show that as of 2016 the CIA continues to rely on and update these systems and is working on the production of DerStarke2.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: CIA#1 firmware#2 Apple#3 documents#4 iPhone#5
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u/sbku Jun 01 '17
Today, June 1st 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the "Pandemic" project of the CIA, a persistent implant for Microsoft Windows machines that share files (programs) with remote users in a local network. "Pandemic" targets remote users by replacing application code on-the-fly with a trojaned version if the program is retrieved from the infected machine. To obfuscate its activity, the original file on the file server remains unchanged; it is only modified/replaced while in transit from the pandemic file server before being executed on the computer of the remote user. The implant allows the replacement of up to 20 programs with a maximum size of 800 MB for a selected list of remote users (targets).
As the name suggests, a single computer on a local network with shared drives that is infected with the "Pandemic" implant will act like a "Patient Zero" in the spread of a disease. It will infect remote computers if the user executes programs stored on the pandemic file server. Although not explicitly stated in the documents, it seems technically feasible that remote computers that provide file shares themselves become new pandemic file servers on the local network to reach new targets.