Symantec: Malware found in the wild in 2007-2011 appears to match WikiLeaks Vault7 files

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[quote]Malware that WikiLeaks purports belongs to the Central Intelligence Agency has been definitively tied to an advanced hacking operation that has been penetrating governments and private industries around the world for years, researchers from security firm Symantec say. Longhorn, as Symantec dubs the group, has infected governments and companies in the financial, telecommunications, energy, and aerospace industries since at least 2011 and possibly as early as 2007.[/quote]
[quote]Exhibit A in Symantec's case are Vault7 documents describing malware called Fluxwire. The changelog tracking differences from one version to the next match within one to a few days the changes Symantec found in a Longhorn trojan known as Corentry. Early versions of Corentry also show that its developers used the same program database file location specified in the Fluxwire documentation. A change in Fluxwire version 3.5.0 that removes the database file path also matches changes Symantec tracked in Corentry. Up until 2014, Corentry source code was compiled using the GNU Compiler Collection. Then on February 25, 2015, it started using the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. The progression matches changes described in Vault7 documentation.[/quote]

[url]https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/found-in-the-wild-vault7-hacking-tools-wikileaks-attributes-to-the-cia/[/url]
[url]https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/longhorn-tools-used-cyberespionage-group-linked-vault-7[/url]

God damn they might be on to something with that vault
(polidicks cause WL/assange always ends up political)

[noruzenchi]

So for all the privacy nuts: you haven't been safe. Ever. So stop arguing that it's safe.

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

i'm pretty sure everything in vault 7 is real. if wikileaks is guilty of anything they're guilty of lying by omission and not fabrication.

[Doom14]

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;52089713]i'm pretty sure everything in vault 7 is real. if wikileaks is guilty of anything they're guilty of lying by omission and not fabrication.[/QUOTE]

Omission is infinitely easier to do as well as backpedal on as a "whoops" than outright fabrication.

Wikileaks has definitely gotten politicized in the past few years, but I wouldn't just brush aside whatever they release because of the prior bit. And man, does some of that stuff make me outright uncomfortable.

[Gook Nukem]

Surprise, that virus you got from watching milf-fucked-hard.avi.exe? The CIA orchestrated​ your infection to snap a dick pic through your camera.

They have you by the balls and shaft!

[Chonch]

[QUOTE=Quark:;52092114]Surprise, that virus you got from watching milf-fucked-hard.avi.exe? The CIA orchestrated​ your infection to snap a dick pic through your camera.

They have you by the balls and shaft![/QUOTE]

And if you get your computer looked at by the local tech folks, they flash copy your hard drive and send it to the FBI. There's really no way around the government these days.

[snookypookums]

[QUOTE=Chonch;52092141]And if you get your computer looked at by the local tech folks, they flash copy your hard drive and send it to the FBI. There's really no way around the government these days.[/QUOTE]

Wait, wasn't that [I]just[/I] Geek Squad, though?

[elix]

[QUOTE=snookypookums;52094258]Wait, wasn't that [I]just[/I] Geek Squad, though?[/QUOTE]
That's what was revealed. It doesn't mean there aren't similar programs elsewhere. It doesn't mean there [I]are[/I], as well, but why would the FBI limit themselves when they've got the power to demand basically anything from anyone?