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\"malware-cada-8-segundos\"<\/a>On Thursday, WikiLeaks unveiled 12 new documents that offer more details about the techniques the CIA allegedly took to hack Apple devices. And this new leak revealed intell that the CIA allegedly bugged phones straight from the factory, according to heavy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This release is part of the recent Vault 7<\/a> leak, and was dubbed Dark Matter. The first Vault 7 leak came in the form of wiki pages from the CIA’s intranet and included information related to the agency’s\u00a0cyber-weapons. The documents released reportedly unmask the fact that the CIA was bugging factory phones for the last nine years.<\/p>\n

The documents had names like Sonic Screwdriver, Triton, DarkSeaSkies and NightSkies. One of the tools, Sonic Screwdriver, means those in the CIA can deploy from an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter. That allows a cyber criminal to infect a device with malicious code while it’s starting up.<\/p>\n

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And DarkSeaSkies is made of smaller parts but, “is an implant that persists in the EFI firmware of an Apple MacBook Air computer, installs a Mac OSX 10.5 kernel-space implant and executes a user-space implant.”<\/p>\n

NightSkies\u00a0is known as a \u201cbeacon\/loader\/implant tool\u201d for the Apple iPhone, according to heavy.com<\/a>. This is the tool that was produced to be installed onto phones that hadn’t left the factory and reportedly means that the CIA has had the ability to infect fresh phones since 2008.<\/p>\n

The tools were created to infiltrate the\u00a0EFI\/UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) specification and putting malicious code in there means a cyber-criminal has the chance to execute that malicious code every time a user starts up their device. And reinstalling the\u00a0operating system doesn’t remedy this issue.<\/p>\n

The CIA was using these tactics to get to a target, but it’s been reported that this also affects the target’s organization by “interdicting mail orders and other shipments (opening, infecting, and resending) leaving the United States or otherwise,” heavy.com reported.<\/p>\n

While the CIA declined to confirm the validity of these documents, they reportedly asked a judge not to use them in a case due to their\u00a0classified status, according to Motherboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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