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Wikileaks exposes CIA’s weeping angel

by on24 April 2017


Don’t blink


Russian security services mouthpiece, Wikileaks, has just released something that Vladimir Putin’s finest have discovered about the CIA’s tools to hack Samsung tellies.

Wikileaks has published another set of hacking tools belonging to the American intelligence agency. The latest revelation includes a user guide for CIA's "Weeping Angel" tool which was derived from another tool called "Extending" which belongs to UK's intelligence agency MI5/BTSS.

Extending takes control of Samsung F Series Smart TV. The highly-detailed user guide describes it as an implant "designed to record audio from the built-in microphone and egress or store the data".

According to the user guide, the malware can be deployed on a TV via a USB stick after configuring it on a Linux system.

It is possible to transfer the recorded audio files through the USB stick or by setting up a WiFi hotspot near the TV. Also, a Live Liston Tool, running on a Windows OS, can be used to listen to audio exfiltration in real-time.

Wikileaks mentioned that the two agencies, CIA and MI5/BTSS, made collaborative efforts to create Weeping Angel during their Joint Development Workshops. Clearly the Russians found out about it and by releasing the tools through Wikileaks they can be re-assured that the CIA will not be using them on Russian Samsungs.

Last modified on 24 April 2017
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