OpenStack 04/12/2017 (a.m.)

• MoA - The Khan Sheikoun Show - A New President Proudly Presented By Trump Productions

  Tags: war & peace, surveillance state, NSA, hacking-tools, Trump, Syria-attack-retaliation

  • Shadowbrokers, who got hands on the NSA's top hacking tool, is a original Trump fan and voter and pissed that Trump is turning to the neocons and away from Steve Bannon:
    Recommended (if only for style)
    https://medium.com/@shadowbrokerss/dont-forget-your-base-867d304a94b1

    In protest he is releasing the NSA's arsenal:
    https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP
    The password for the EQGRP-Auction-Files is CrDj”(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN

    Edward Snowden tweeted just now:
    https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/850766326943690752

    "NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons; hackers leaked it."

• Symantec: CIA Linked To Cyberattacks In 16 Countries

  Tags: cyberwar, CIA, leaked-malware, Wikileaks, Vault7

  • Internet and computer security company Symantec has issued a statement today related to the Vault 7 WikiLeaks documents leaked from the CIA, saying that the methods and protocols described in the documents are consistent with cyberattacks they’d been tracking for years.

    Symantec says they now believe that the CIA hacking tool Fluxwire is a malware that had been known as Corentry, which Symantec had previously attributed to an unknown cyberespionage group called Longhorn, which apparently was the CIA.

    They described Longhorn as having been active since at least 2011, and responsible for attacks in at least 16 countries across the world, targeting governments and NGOs, as well as financial, energy, and natural resource companies, things that would generally be of interest to a nation-state.

  • While the WikiLeaks themselves have been comparatively short on details, as WikiLeaks continues to share specific vulnerabilities with companies so they can fix them before the details are leaked to the general public, the ability of security companies like Symantec to link the CIA to known hacking operations could prove to be even more enlightening as to the scope of CIA cyber-espionage the world over.

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