CouchPotato: CIA Hacking Tool to Remotely Spy On Video Streams in Real-Time

After disclosing CIA's strategies to hijack and manipulate webcams and microphones to corrupt or delete recordings, WikiLeaks has now published another Vault 7 leak, revealing CIA's ability to spy on video streams remotely in real-time. Dubbed 'CouchPotato,' document leaked from the CIA details h...

How to: Detect OutlawCountry on YOUR System?

PenTestIT RSS Feed On June 29th 2017, WikiLeaks published documents about the CIA OutlawCountry project that targets computers running the Linux operating systems. Such releases have been code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks. This is a post about a simple method with which you can verify for your se...

Wikileaks Unveils CIA Implants that Steal SSH Credentials from Windows & Linux PCs

WikiLeaks has today published the 15th batch of its ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing two alleged CIA implants that allowed the agency to intercept and exfiltrate SSH Secure Shell credentials from targeted Windows and Linux operating systems using different attack vectors. Secure Shell or...

Wikileaks Reveals CIA Malware that Hacks & Spy On Linux Computers

WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing an alleged CIA project that allowed the agency to hack and remotely spy on computers running the Linux operating systems. Dubbed OutlawCountry, the project allows the CIA hackers to redirect all outbound...

RHEL / CentOS 6.x (64-bit) Malicious Kernel Module Detection (OutlawCountry)

According to diagnostic indicators, the remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS host may have a malicious kernel module known as OutlawCountry installed. OutlawCountry creates a hidden netfilter table that allows an authenticated attacker to covertly override existing netfilter/iptables firewal...