WikiLeaks touted its trove as exceeding in scale and significance the massive collection of National Security Agency documents exposed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. [WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents about Clinton and internal deliberations]U.S. intelligence officials appeared to have been caught off guard by Tuesday’s disclosure. The material highlights specific anti-virus products that can be defeated, going further than a release of NSA hacking tools last year, he said. The CIA hackers, according to WikiLeaks, even “discussed what the NSA’s . The WikiLeaks release revealed that they have sophisticated “stealth” capabilities that enable hackers not only to infiltrate systems, but evade detection, and abilities to “escalate privileges” or move inside a system as if they owned it.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2017 15:47 UTC