[BrianGragg]

The first line from the article: In March 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of files detailing the CIA’s spying operations and hacking tools. The leak, known as Vault 7, was the largest disclosure of classified information in the agency’s history. In April, Symantec publicly linked Vault 7 to an advanced threat actor named Longhorn. Kaspersky then announced it tracks the same actor as The Lamberts, and revealed the existence of an OS X implant called Green Lambert.

[1cvmask]

One of the most important revelations in the Vault 7 was the CIA's false flag tooling to ascribe cyberattacks to say Russia, China etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

[khrbrt]

This is news to me. Do you know of a good article that summarizes Vault 7?

[severine]

I mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

[striking]

Yeah, but that doesn't say what you think it says:

> Cybersecurity writers, such as Ben Buchanan and Kevin Poulsen, were skeptical of [the false flag theories]. Poulsen wrote, "The leaked catalog isn't organized by country of origin, and the specific malware used by the Russian DNC hackers is nowhere on the list."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#False_flag_theories

[jimmygrapes]

It doesn't take CIA tools to change the properties of a Word document though

[boomboomsubban]

Even if that one hack was carried out by Russia, the CIA still have tools to create false flag attacks.

[1cvmask]

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/wikileaks-dumps-cia-malware-o...

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/56983/intelligence/wiki...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/kim-dotcom-on-vault-7-cia-hur...

[amatecha]

Ohhhh I see, I didn't connect the "lineage": Vault 7 leak from CIA, Symantec says stuff in Vault 7 is from Longhorn. Thanks for pointing out the obvious for me haha :)