WikiLeaks Releases CIA Tools for Stealthy Hacking of Apple’s Operating System – Sputnik International

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13:09 27.07.2017(updated 13:27 27.07.2017) Get short URL

WikiLeaks released new documents on Thursday as part of Vault 7 release, which contain information on the CIA hacking tools from the Imperial project.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) As regards the hacking tools, the Achilles is a trojan forthe OS X, while SeaPea is an OS X Rootkit that provides stealth and tool launching capabilities.

"Aeris is an automated implant written inC that supports a number ofPOSIX-based systems (Debian, RHEL, Solaris, FreeBSD, CentOS)," the press release explained.

SeaPea "hides files/directories, socket connections and/or processes. It runs onMac OSX 10.6 and 10.7."

WikiLeaks released the first batch fromthe Vault 7 project inMarch, containing a total of8,761 documents. The latest releases were dedicated toa CIA project targeting SMS messages sent and receive onAndroid devices and an analysis bya CIA "technology scout" analyzing suspected Chinese and Russian malware, and took place onJuly 13 and July 19 respectively.

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