Following
revelations that the CIA can reportedly attribute its hacking
activity to others, an anti-virus expert has said that attacks
previously blamed on others are now attributable to the CIA,
according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
News that
the CIA could make its malware look as if it derived from Russia,
China or other actors emerged as part of WikiLeaks’ ‘Year Zero’
data release on Tuesday.
According to
the leaked information, the CIA’s malware allows the intelligence
agency to not only steal hacking techniques, but also to leave false
“fingerprints” to make it appear as if others were responsible
for the attack.
Speaking in
a livestream on Thursday, Assange announced that WikiLeaks will give
tech companies access to the methods used by the CIA in its hacking
operations. Assange then said that after the revelation, an
anti-virus expert approached WikiLeaks to say that attacks previously
blamed on Russia, China and Iran have now been pinned on the CIA.
“The
technology is designed to be unaccountable, it’s designed to be
untraceable, it’s designed to hide itself. It’s designed to throw
off people looking to see where there are fingerprints that might
demonstrate who authored that technology," Assange
explained.
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