WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Teams Up With Tech to Collect Ideas For Malware Development

[frogboy]

As part of its ongoing Vault 7 leaks, the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks today revealed about a CIA contractor responsible for analysing advanced malware and hacking techniques being used in the wild by cyber criminals.

According to the documents leaked by WikiLeaks, Raytheon Blackbird Technologies, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor, submitted nearly five such reports to CIA as part of UMBRAGE Component Library (UCL) project between November 2014 and September 2015.

These reports contain brief analysis about proof-of-concept ideas and malware attack vectors — publically presented by security researchers and secretly developed by cyber espionage hacking groups.


Reports submitted by Raytheon were allegedly helping CIA's Remote Development Branch (RDB) to collect ideas for developing their own advanced malware projects.

It was also revealed in previous Vault 7 leaks that CIA's UMBRAGE malware development teams also borrow codes from publicly available malware samples to built its own spyware tools.

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[Atlas147]

Probably where they take exploits from and deploy them for their own gains instead of reporting it to the software developer to make the internet a safer place

 

[DeepWeb]

I can see why they would do that. A lot of the most recent malware knows how to escape the eyes of AV programs without causing any red flags for the user. That's exactly what the CIA wants to do, too. Just sneak inside of a computer to deploy their spyware. I bet there are plenty of places on the Tor network that sell zero-days while Microsoft, Apple etc remain clueless. $1 million for a zero-day exploit is too much for them, but it's a fair price for a government agency with almost infinite cashflow.