This article has been updated with addition findings as of Wednesday, March 8th

As I'm sure news sites will be picking this up shortly, I'll try and be brief today and update this post later with more detailed information as I dig through the documentation.

For those who aren't aware, Wikileaks has received a veritable treasure-trove of confidential, CIA-devised hacking tools from an unknown source.

"Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.

While the tools themselves have not been released (as of today), the internal documentation for the projects has been (approximately 1200~ unique items).

As I was concerned for our own products, I began rummaging around the "Network Devices Branch (NBD)" tool-sets...

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As far as other interesting information that I've come across, there is an internal discussion on "What did Equation do wrong, and how can we avoid doing the same?" that occurred on an internal CIA discussion board. Scroll down for the comments on Kaspersky's research and how the CIA can avoid the same pitfalls as the NSA.

More to come as I dive deeper into the documentation.





Update for Wednesday, March 8th:

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