Sentences with phrase «dumping hacking tools»

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According to reports from CNN and the Washington Post, the Justice Department is preparing to charge Assange for his role in the 2010 dump of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks, as well as a more recent release of the CIA's library of hacking tools.

Friday's dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.

Cyber security experts disagreed about the extent of the fallout from the data dump, but said a lot would depend on whether WikiLeaks followed through on a threat to publish the actual hacking tools that could do damage.

But today, the group released what's probably its most explosive — and damaging — dump yet: a collection of several alleged NSA hacking tools for Microsoft Windows systems, likely including multiple unknown exploits, or zero - days.

In addition to the tools and exploits published in the Hacking Team dump, their financial records were dumped, which detailed how they'd had dealings with private companies as well as nefarious and repressive governments.

The group previously teased the new monthly dump service in mid-May, four days after the WannaCry ransomware wreaked havoc across the world using two hacking tools the Shadow Brokers leaked online in mid-April.

In a message posted online early this morning, the Shadow Brokers — the cyber-espionage group believed to have stolen hacking tools from the NSA — announced new details about their upcoming «monthly dump service.»

The recent string of reports pertaining to a WikiLeaks document dump alleging the CIA's hacking tools caused a fit of unrest over data security.

News organization have been abuzz this week following the release of a new WikiLeaks document dump detailing the hacking tools used by the CIA to spy on Americans.