Vault 8: Wikileaks publishes sourcecode from last spring's CIA Vault 7 cyberweapons leak

[john_c]

@doctorow

Access to this sourcecode will reveal, for example, whether the CIA is recycling existing cyberweapons used by criminals in its tools, whether and how the CIA misdirects attribution for its cyberwarfare operations (for example, by leaving false clues like foreign-language variable names or timestamps from exotic locales), and it provides critical data on the practical realities of NOBUS, allowing researchers to track the rate of independent rediscovery and exploitation of the bugs that the CIA has deliberately left intact on our computers.

Except that the only files in this release are for a system called Hive, which is a data relay tool. There’s no exploit code.

eta: there’s client-side code for the command & control implant. but no exploits.