CIA´s circumvention methods on Wikileaks
Tuesday, 7th March on Wikileaks there was a release of around 9,000 pages of documents on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency hacking methods, called “Year Zero”, which revealed CIA´s hardware and software world´s top technology products circumvention methods (including smartphone operating systems exploitation). These methods are believed to allow agents to circumvent encryption apps.
According to a Reuters report U.S. government contractors are suspected by the law enforcement and U.S. intelligence to have likely handed over the information to Wikileaks.
However, after it has already occurred in government contractor employees´ cases (Harold Thomas Martin´s and Edward Snowden´s), sensitive government information leak nowadays remains no wonder anymore.
Google Director, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung believe that they are continuously and accurately looking into any identified vulnerabilities in order to implement necessary protections.
Even though the authenticity of the leaks still awaits the confirmation, the CIA has expressed its concern about the topic.
Open Whisper Systems confirm that there was no Signal protocol encryption break, even though the New York Times originally reported that the CIA could break the encryption of WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram apps.