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Wikileaks Just Dumped a Cache of Information on Alleged CIA Hacking Tools

Recently, hackers dumped information concerning the NSA’s hacking tools. Now, Wikileaks has allegedly done something similar to the CIA.

On Tuesday, Wikileaks published what it says are files related to the Central Intelligence Agency's hacking operations. Apparently the first in a series dubbed "Vault 7" by Wikileaks, the transparency organization claimed the dump was the largest-ever publication of confidential documents concerning the CIA.

"The first full part of the series, 'Year Zero', comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia," Wikileaks' press release reads.

According to Wikileaks, the "Year Zero" cache includes information related to dozens of zero-day exploits developed for use against Apple iPhones, Google's Android operating system, and Microsoft's Windows. But Wikileaks has not publicly distributed the exploits themselves, according to the press release, avoiding that "until a consensus emerges on the technical and political nature of the CIA's program and how such 'weapons' should [be] analyzed, disarmed and published."

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