Vault 7: Wikileaks reveals details of CIA's hacks of Android, iPhone Windows, Linux, MacOS, and even Samsung TVs

Carly Page
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You name it, the CIA seems to have hacked it - and left their backdoors behind for others to use

Wikileaks has released a series of documents that strongly suggest that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been engaged in hacking Android, Apple's iOS and MacOS operating systems, Linux,...

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