WikiLeaks Dumps Source Code of CIA Tool Marble

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WikiLeaks dumped another part of its Vault 7 data trove on CIA's espionage tools and this time it's a tool called Marble, which is a code obfuscating framework.

"Marble is used to hampering forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA," WikiLeaks writes in its release. Experts, however, don't really agree with this description.

For instance, Jake Williams, Rendition Infosec founder, took to Twitter and said that after 30 minutes spent on reviewing the available code, he "emphatically disagree with [WikiLeaks] assertion that Marble is used for false flag ops."

What does he believe it is? Well, just a string obfuscation library. Williams believes it is an interesting piece of code, but not in the sense that it would allow for cyber false flag. "The Chin... (read more)

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