"While CIA assets are sometimes used to physically infect systems in the custody of a target it is likely that many CIA physical access attacks have infected the targeted organization's supply chain including by interdicting mail orders and other shipments (opening, infecting, and resending) leaving the United States or otherwise," says WikiLeaks.ĬIA's Dark Matter leak is the second batch of Vault 7 released by WikiLeaks, after the whistleblower organization released the first part of an unprecedentedly large archive of CIA-related classified documents on March 7.
What's noteworthy is that the first version of this iPhone hacking tool is operational since 2007, which has expressly been designed to infect "factory fresh" iPhones in the supply chain, WikiLeaks stated in a press release. This beacon must be persistent in the MacBook Air, and must leave a minimal on-disc footprint." document says. The tool will be a beacon/implant that runs in the background of a MacBook Air that provides us with command and control capabilities. "COG has the opportunity to gift a MacBook Air to a target that will be implanted with this tool.
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Another document in the latest release consists of a manual for the CIA's " NightSkies 1.2," which is described as a "beacon/loader/implant tool" for the Apple iPhone.