Latest WikiLeaks Release Shows How the CIA Hacks Your Router | WIRED
"Including, according to a new WikiLeaks release, the CIA.On Thursday, WikiLeaks published a detailed a set of descriptions and documentation for the CIA's router-hacking toolkit.", "With those credentials, a CIA hacker can then install their own custom firmware, which it calls Flytrap, on a victim's router."
'Your Wi-Fi router, sitting in the corner of your home accumulating dust and unpatched security flaws, provides an attractive target for hackers. '
'"Almost every home has a wireless router, and we don't have many tools to check what’s going on on those devices," Hickey says. ', "It's the latest drip in the months-long trickle of secret CIA files it's called Vault7 , and it hints at how the agency leverages vulnerabilities in common routers sold by companies including D-Link and Linksys."
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"Including, according to a new WikiLeaks release, the CIA.On Thursday, WikiLeaks published a detailed a set of descriptions and documentation for the CIA's router-hacking toolkit.", "With those credentials, a CIA hacker can then install their own custom firmware, which it calls Flytrap, on a victim's router."
'Your Wi-Fi router, sitting in the corner of your home accumulating dust and unpatched security flaws, provides an attractive target for hackers. '
'"Almost every home has a wireless router, and we don't have many tools to check what’s going on on those devices," Hickey says. ', "It's the latest drip in the months-long trickle of secret CIA files it's called Vault7 , and it hints at how the agency leverages vulnerabilities in common routers sold by companies including D-Link and Linksys."
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