April 11, 2017 WikiLeaks: CIA used 'Grasshopper' framework to infect Windows users
WikiLeaks published documents showing how the CIA infected Windows computers with malware. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) targets Windows users via a framework called Grasshopper that it uses to customize and execute malware, according to 27 documents published by WikiLeaks in the latest installment of its Vault7 leaks. The agency can use custom installers tailored to the version of Windows and antivirus software a user is running. The documents also detail persistence mechanisms, those tools that malware uses to evade detection. In one mechanism, Stolen Goods, the CIA use Carberp financial malware that first appeared in 2013. The documents indicate that the agency made modifications to Carberp and then used Grasshopper to tailor it to victims computers and persist by evading AV scans and reinstalling itself.
Dove Super Elite
Posts : 91338 Reputation : 524 Join date : 2011-08-18
Subject: Re: The digital marauders! Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:38 pm
I'll say one thing. I'm not going looking for it. That's a good way to crash, burn and never get that computer back.
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details. A Miracle is when God makes His Reality our Experience
Subject: The digital marauders! 
Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:47 am
