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#CIA #MSMedia #Assange #Vault7 #MarbleFramework #Fearmongering WikiLeaks drops 'Grasshopper' documents, part four of its CIA Vault 7 files Wikileaks' latest batch of Vault 7 documents focuses on the CIA's anti-forensics tools After publishing thousands of politicised emails during the US presidential election, Wikileaks has turned its focus to the US intelligence services. Julian Assange and his team have published more than 8,761 documents that are claimed to be from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The trove of documents, dubbed Vault 7, is said to be the first of a number of disclosures that reveal the CIA's hacking abilities. "The series is the largest intelligence publication in history," Wikileaks says. "This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive." What is in Grasshopper – part 4? The fourth release of Wikileak's CIA files, dubbed Grasshopper, dropped on April 7. Within the files are 27 documents, which the leaking organisation says were used by the CIA to build "customised malware payloads for Microsoft Windows operating systems". "Grasshopper is provided with a variety of modules that can be used by a CIA operator as blocks to construct a customised implant that will behave differently, for example maintaining persistence on the computer differently, depending on what particular features or capabilities are selected in the process of building the bundle," Wikileaks says in a statement published alongside the documents. The documents themselves mostly consist of user guides that relate to different computer system modules. For instance, the 107-page Grasshopper-v1_1-AdminGuide explains it defines the modules and payloads needed for a person to build an "operation". Elsewhere, the organisation explains the documents talk about using malware that has been previously used by Russian organised crime units and also provides advice how CIA code can be used to avoid Microsoft security tools. Wikileaks claims the documents provide insights into how the CIA builds "modern espionage tools" and makes use of vulnerabilities in Windows computers. READ ABOUT (LINKS): Part three: Marble Framework Part two: Dark Matter Part one: Year Zero https://www.wired.com/story/cia-files-wikileaks-vault-7/#:~:text=Within%20the%20documents%20on%20Weeping,replaced%20by%20'user%20numbers'. Weakilinks Vault 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#:~:text=Vault%207%20is%20a%20series,Windows%2C%20macOS%2C%20and%20Linux. 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 electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The files, dating from 2013 to 2016, include details on the agency's software capabilities, such as the ability to compromise cars, smart TVs,[1] web browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera,[2][3] the operating systems of most smartphones including Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and computer operating systems including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.[4][5] A CIA internal audit identified 91 malware tools out of more than 500 tools in use in 2016 being compromised by the release.[6] The tools were developed by the Operations Support Branch of the CIA.[7].....