Security: Systemd, ELSA, and OutlawCountry
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Linux Systemd Bug Could Have Led to Crash, Code Execution
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WikiLeaks Vault 7 – ELSA: How the CIA can use WiFi to find you anywhere
ELSA can be customized to match environmental and operational factors, including sampling interval, maximum logfile size, invocation and persistence. Using the same geo-location databases maintained by Internet giants, additional back-end software can generate a tracking profile.
Two weeks ago, in a similar Vault 7 dump, WikiLeaks revealed how the CIA could use a malware “implant” (codenamed CherryBlossom) to turn at least 25 WiFi router and access point models into surveillance posts.
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OutlawCountry: ‘CIA hacking tool’ targets Linux operating system (IMAGE)
WikiLeaks has published leaked documents purportedly from ‘OutlawCountry’, an alleged CIA program designed to overcome and alter firewalls on a Linux operating device.
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“The target must be running a compatible 64-bit version of CentOS/RHEL 6.x (kernel version 2.6.32),” the program’s user guide says.
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Vault 7: Latest WikiLeaks dump details Linux exploit
OutlawCountry v1.0 has a kernel module for the 64-bit distribution of CentOS/RHEL 6.x and it will only work with the default kernel which is 2.6.32. (This kernel version is very old; for comparison, the current testing stream of Debian has a 4.9.0-3 kernel.)
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Can the CIA hack Linux? WikiLeaks' new dump reveals spy agency's OutlawCountry malware
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CIA has a tool to hack Linux
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