In case you’ve been living in a cave without electricity for a few days, on March 7th, 2017, WikiLeaks leaked a collection of almost 9,000 documents allegedly from the CIA related to a project known as Vault7. The CIA issued an official response on its website the following day.
Assuming the exposed documents actually do originate from the CIA, according to the NY Times, the document dump contains voluminous details on:
- Wi-Fi networks
- How to crash targeted computers
- How to steal passwords using the autosuggestion feature built into IE
The Vault 7 collection also purportedly includes slides that suggest the CIA was able to leverage Samsung Smart TV’s to covertly record conversations even when the display and LED lights were off.