China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more...

Former CIA Engineer Sentenced to 40 Years for Leaking Classified Documents

A former software engineer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by the Southern District of New York SDNY for transmitting classified documents to WikiLeaks and for possessing child pornographic material. Joshua Adam Schulte, 35, was originally...

CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks

By Deeba Ahmed The Vault 7 leak included trojans, viruses, malware, zero-day exploits, malware remote control systems, and related documents dating… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks...

Long Story on the Accused CIA Vault 7 Leaker

Long article about Joshua Schulte, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 and Vault 8 CIA data. Well worth reading...

Theft of CIA's 'Vault 7' Secrets Tied to 'Woefully Lax" Security

A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency CIA data breach, which led to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, blames “woefully lax” security by the nation’s top spy agency. The conclusions were part of an internal 2017 Department of Justice DoJ report on the CIA breach. On...

CIA Dirty Laundry Aired

Joshua Schulte, the CIA employee standing trial for leaking the Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA hacking tools, maintains his innocence. And during the trial, a lot of shoddy security and sysadmin practices are coming out: All this raises a question, though: just how bad is the CIA's security that it wasn't...

Researchers Claim CIA Was Behind 11-Year-Long Hacking Attacks Against China

Qihoo 360, one of the most prominent cybersecurity firms, today published a new report accusing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA to be behind an 11-year-long hacking campaign against several Chinese industries and government agencies. The targeted industry sectors include aviation...

Smaller Nation State Attacks: A Growing Cyber Menace

Last year, a Qatari state media website was compromised and defaced with false reports of the Emir of that country praising Iran and Hamas. The fake content was blasted on social media and amplified through bots, eventually provoking a regional boycott that persists today. Andrea Little Limbago...

Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking 'Vault 7' hacking tools to Wikileaks

A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak of classified information in the agency's history. Joshua Adam Schulte, who once created malware for both the CIA and NSA to break...

Former CIA engineer allegedly leaked Vault 7 documents to WikiLeaks

By Waqas The suspect is CIA's very own former engineer accused of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Former CIA engineer allegedly leaked Vault 7 documents to WikiLeaks...

4 Predictions for the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2018

Targeted attacks are on the rise, and the dark web isn’t helping curb that trend. To compound this, the recent revelations on Shadow Brokers and CIA Vault 7, as well as burgeoning nation-state cyber capabilities aren’t helping either. It’s only a matter of time before more attack methods are...

Wikileaks Unveils Project Protego: CIA's Secret Missile Control System

Every week since March Wikileaks has been leaking secrets from the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA, which mainly focus on surveillance techniques and hacking tools employed by its agents. However this time, the whistleblower organisation has released something different from its...

AngelFire: CIA Malware Infects System Boot Sector to Hack Windows PCs

A team of hackers at the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, allegedly used a Windows hacking tool against its targets to gain persistent remote access. As part of its Vault 7 leaks, WikiLeaks today revealed details about a new implant developed by the CIA, dubbed AngelFire, to target computers...

Vault 7 Leak: CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies

By Waqas New Vault 7 Documents by WikiLeaks Show How CIA Collected This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vault 7 Leak: CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies...

WikiLeaks Reveals How CIA Malware Tracks Geo-Location of its Targeted

WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, and this time the whistleblowing website has unveiled a classified malware for that tracks geo-location of targeted PCs and laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system. In short, the malware does it by capturing the...

Digging Into WannaCry Details: Answers to Your Burning Questions

Jimmy Graham, Director of Product Management, Qualys Threat Protection & AssetView The WannaCry ransomware attack spread so quickly and has been so disruptive that IT departments can’t get enough information about what caused it, how it can be remediated and what can be done to protect their...

WikiLeaks Reveals 'AfterMidnight' & 'Assassin' CIA Windows Malware Frameworks

When the world was dealing with the threat of the self-spreading WannaCry ransomware, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA Vault 7 leaks, detailing two apparent CIA malware frameworks for the Microsoft Windows platform. Dubbed "AfterMidnight" and "Assassin," both malware programs are designed to...

Wikileaks Unveils CIA's Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle MitM attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA to target local networks. Since March, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents and other secret tools that the...

Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks

Wikileaks has just published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, exposing the documentation and source code for a CIA project known as "Scribbles." Scribbles, a.k.a. the "Snowden Stopper," is a piece of software allegedly designed to embed 'web beacon' tags into confidential documents, allowing the...

Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch in CVE-2017-3881 vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 December 17, Cisco official website announced that the Cisco IOS&IOS-XE Software Cluster Management ProtocolCluster Management Protocolthe presence of a remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2017-3881-in. The vulnerability is Cisco in the study of the CIA leak of the document“Vault 7”...