Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
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#2wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools
LOL
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#3Why would they release their own tools?
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#4wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools LOL
They would probably be CIA tools disguised as FSB.
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#5wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools LOL
Seems FSB has better security than CIA.
90% of intelligence community cyber security spending is on offensive projects, so this revelation should not be too surprising. (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-defense-idUSKBN1...)
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#6What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
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#7What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
Well this is the CIA.
It can confuse the attribution so that trust is spoiled, so that energy is spend uselessly, so that another country takes the blame, for false flag attacks to justify other strategic moves.
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#8What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
Doesn't necessarily have to be instigation -- could just be misdirection. If you're targeting Russians, then making malware that looks like Russian hackers seems like a no brainer, if you don't want to attract attention from intelligence services.
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#9wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools LOL
Russia remains a black spot, due to the language/kyrilic alphabet? And they do most secret stuff with typewriters and photocopies these days, so i've heard. Snowdens revelations had a big impact there.
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#10What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
There is a huge advantage to do that. False flag attacks are one of the tried and true methods of intelligence agencies since ancient times.
For example the official pretext for WWII was started as a false flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident US did it at the start of Vietnam War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
We gain a lot from this. We can for example manufacture "Russian hysteria" - "Look we found a Russian rootkit on a DNC server". We can attack our allies and then make it look like the Chinese did it, and so on. It is immensely useful.