A Former CIA Employee is Suspected In Wikileaks ‘Vault 7’ Disclosure

According to federal prosecutors, Joshua Adam Schulte, a former CIA employee, is believed to have provided the agency’s Vault 7 cyber warfare tools to WikiLeaks.

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U.S. authorities have identified a suspect in last year's "Vault 7" leaks of CIA hacking and electronic surveillance tools used in foreign espionage operations, reports the Washington Post. The Vault 7 release - a series of 24 documents which began to publish on March 7, 2017 - reveal that the CIA had a wide variety of tools to use against

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Wikileaks Reveals “Dumbo”: CIA Tool To Shut Down Cameras And Mics

Once installed on a computer running the Windows operating system via a thumb drive, Dumbo identifies webcams and microphones and stops them from recording.

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The floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Since Wikileaks began releasing classified CIA documents back in March as part of its “Vault 7” series of leaks, purportedly the largest document dump in the agency’s history, it has publicly unveiled programs with innocent sounding names like “Marble”, “Scribbles” and “Archimedes” that the agency employs to help execute its operations, or to cover

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Latest Wikileaks Release, ‘Cherry Blossom’ Exposes CIA Wireless Hacking

Part of the Wikileaks larger Vault 7 release, Cherry Blossom reveals tools used by the CIA to infiltrate wireless networks in order to covertly access user data.

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The floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

The whistleblowing site WikiLeaks is back with yet another Vault 7 series related document. This one is called “Cherry Blossom” program which gives a glance at the wireless hacking capabilities of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Cherry Blossom project according to the leaked documents was allegedly developed and implemented by the CIA

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WikiLeaks Reveals The “Snowden Stopper”: CIA Tool To Track Whistleblowers

The CIA software is purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.

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The CIA tool purportedly relies on Microsoft Office to track leaked documents and the whistle-blowers that release them.

As the latest installment of it's 'Vault 7' series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ (a.k.a. the "Snowden Stopper"), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.” The web beacon tags are apparently able to collect

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Wikileaks Being Singled Out? Assange Responds To U.S. Calls For Arrest

Recent statements by U.S. government officials seem to indicate that leaks published by WikiLeaks warrant persecution of the leaks’ publisher, while those leaks published by the Washington Post or the New York Times are evidently not worth prosecuting over.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks onto the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy to addresses waiting supporters and media in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. (AP/Frank Augstein)

MINNEAPOLIS-- In his first speech as CIA Director, Mike Pompeo delivered a strong invective against the pro-transparency organization WikiLeaks, accusing the group of acting as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” The aggressive rhetoric came amid Wikileaks’ latest series of releases, known as “Vault 7,” which detail how the CIA has lost

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VIDEO: iPhones Are iSpies – Wikileaks “Vault 7” Revelations Continue To Terrify

Most of us carry smartphones and watch web-enabled TVs without much thought. But the revelations found in Wikileaks’ “Vault 7” release warn that we should consider the sinister capabilities that such devices could lend to those who might abuse them.

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A man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. (AP/Eric Risberg)

MINNEAPOLIS-- Since launching in 2006, Wikileaks has reportedly released over 10 million documents, including controversial disclosures that have helped unravel war crimes, uncover corporate secrets and even brought to light explosive revelations stemming from Hillary Clinton's most recent presidential run. Despite facing widespread

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