Amongst the most significant leaks by wikileaks made mention of the cia’s cyber weapons arsenal. Today, september 7th 2017, wikileaks publishes four secret documents from the protego project of the cia, along with 37 related documents (proprietary hardware/software manuals from. Wikileaks has won numerous awards and been commended by media organisations, civil society organisations, and world leaders for exposing state and corporate secrets, increasing.
Schulte, 35, handed wikileaks a trove of cia cyber espionage tools known as vault 7, in what federal prosecutors called some of the most heinous, brazen violations of the. Wikileaks released around 9,000 documents detailing the cia’s cyber tools. Wikileaks claimed that the trove of cia information it had obtained, which it called vault 7, included “several hundred million lines of code”, including many of the agency’s cyber.
Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s. The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists. Wikileaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the us central intelligence agency (cia). Delve into the 2017 wikileaks revelation known as vault 7, the largest leak of cia documents in history.
Vault 7 is a series of documents that wikileaks began to publish on 7 march 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the united states central intelligence agency (cia) to perform.