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2017: WikiLeaks disclosed technology of CIA for attacks on office computers

5 May, 2017 the WikiLeaks website released a new portion of confidential data of CIA within a series of publications under  the general name Vault 7. New documents tell about tools which could use the American intelligence agencies for an attack on local computers of the companies and public institutions.

Archimedes which as approves WikiLeaks, allows to make cyber attacks in  the local area networks to  which users at  offices are usually connected is about technology under the name.

WikiLeaks declassified hacker technology of CIA for tracking of traffic of employees of offices

The program provides control over  one of  computers and  through it traces traffic from  other PCs in corporate network. The browser on  the computer subject to cracking, redirects traffic on  the special server of CIA, however it seems to the user that nothing unusual occurs. It is possible to detect attack only at the analysis of the code of the web page.

Archimedes became upgraded version of the Fulcrum program in which it is implemented a number of improvements, including "a method of graceful closing of the tool on demand", says WikiLeaks.

The portal describes Fulcrum as the means capable to redirect HTTP traffic on the URL page attacking, but at the same time the tool is not a worm or the application operating vulnerability in the software.^[1]

Information on work of Archimedes became a part of the called Vault 7 of a series of the publication of confidential materials of CIA. In total since the beginning of March until the beginning of May, 2017 of was promulgated about 9 thousand documents and files stored in the isolated internal network of the Center for cyberinvestigation which is based in CIA headquarters in Virginia.

On April 28, 2017 WikiLeaks published a portion of data under the name Scribbles. Documents concerned the description  of a system  for document handling of Microsoft Office in offline mode. The tool, according to the website of the portal of leaks, allows is built in documents of the user to monitor his actions.

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