OpenStack 05/06/2017 (a.m.)

• WikiLeaks Reveals Details Of CIA "Archimedes" Tool Used To Hack Local Area Networks

  Tags: surveillance state, CIAArchimedes, malware, page-redirection

  • In its seventh CIA leak since March 23rd, WikiLeaks has just revealed the user manual of a CIA hacking tool known as ‘Archimedes’ which is purportedly used to attack computers inside a Local Area Network (LAN).  The CIA tool works by redirecting a target’s

    The CIA tool works by redirecting a target’s web page search to a CIA server which serves up a web page that looks exactly like the original page they were expecting to be served, but which contains malware.

    It’s only possible to detect the attack by examining the page source.

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