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WikiLeaks has resumed its release of material from the Vault 7 dump after missing a week, with the overnight release of documents from the CIA's Pandemic project, a persistent implant for Microsoft Windows machines that share files with remote users in a local network.

ANALYSIS WikiLeaks appears to have gone missing, with what has become more or less a regular release from its Vault 7 CIA document dump not being made on 26 May.

Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith has slammed the NSA and CIA for creating exploits for the Windows operating system and stockpiling them, claiming that this has led to an unintended link between nation states and organised criminal action.

WikiLeaks has released details about two malware frameworks which it says were designed by the CIA, as part of its Vault 7 document dump.

WikiLeaks has dumped another tool from what it says is an archive of CIA material it has called Vault 7 that came into its possession and which it commenced releasing on 7 March.

WikiLeaks has released the source code and documentation for what it says is software used by the CIA to track documents written in Microsoft Word.

Two of America's spy agencies, the CIA and the FBI, have launched a bid to try and discover who leaked a massive load of documents — which has been labelled Vault 7 and released in drips since 7 March — to WikiLeaks.

A guide for recording and exfiltrating audio data from Samsung F Series Smart Televisions has been released by WikiLeaks in the latest of its Vault 7 data dumps which it says came from the CIA.

Cyber security company Symantec has found spying and hacking tools and operational protocols detailed in the recent Vault 7 leak have been used in cyber attacks against at least 40 targets in 16 different countries by a group Symantec has dubbed Longhorn.

WikiLeaks has released a fourth document dump from its CIA stockpile, dubbed Vault 7, with 27 documents from the Grasshopper framework — a platform used to create customised malware for Windows — being put online overnight.

An Israeli researcher has described Samsung's Tizen operating system — which the company has touted as an Android replacement — as having some of the worst code he has ever seen.

The company that produces the open source cross-platform document-oriented database MongoDB has denied that it has any direct ties to the CIA, despite the fact that the spy agency's venture capital arm is listed as one of its investors.

WikiLeaks has released a third tranche of documents from Vault 7, its CIA document dump, with 676 source code files for the organisation's Marble Framework being released overnight.

Apple says an alleged iPhone vulnerability released by WikiLeaks overnight on Thursday affected the iPhone 3G only and was fixed in 2009.

The CIA has been infecting the Apple iPhone supply chain of one of its targets with malware since at least 2008, WikiLeaks claims in a fresh dump of documents which it says are again from the American spy organisation.

Some organisations such as the Mozilla Foundation have received information from WikiLeaks to tend to vulnerabilities in their products which were recorded in the CIA document dump known as Vault 7 that was made a fortnight ago.

Cisco has released details of a vulnerability in its IOS and IOS XE software that would allow remote exploitation of any one of 318 of its routers.

Public memory is short and people probably do not have the Samsung Galaxy Note7 disaster at the forefront of their thoughts these days.

While US President Donald Trump is working to make America great again, the CIA appears to be hard at work to make the country unsafe again.

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange says the organisation will share unpublished data from its CIA document dump with technology companies to enable them to fix vulnerabilities that are detailed in the documents released.