Grasshopper Release -  April 7 2017 - Excerpts from Wikileaks:


Today, April 7th 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Grasshopper" -- 27 documents from the CIA's Grasshopper framework, a platform used to build customized malware payloads for Microsoft Windows operating systems.


Grasshopper is provided with a variety of modules that can be used by a CIA operator as blocks to construct a customized implant that will behave differently, for example maintaining persistence on the computer differently, depending on what particular features or capabilities are selected in the process of building the bundle. Additionally, Grasshopper provides a very flexible language to define rules that are used to "perform a pre-installation survey of the target device, assuring that the payload will only [be] installed if the target has the right configuration". Through this grammar CIA operators are able to build from very simple to very complex logic used to determine, for example, if the target device is running a specific version of Microsoft Windows, or if a particular Antivirus product is running or not.


Grasshopper allows tools to be installed using a variety of persistence mechanisms and modified using a variety of extensions (like encryption). The requirement list of the Automated Implant Branch (AIB) for Grasshopper puts special attention on PSP avoidance, so that any Personal Security Products like 'MS Security Essentials', 'Rising', 'Symantec Endpoint' or 'Kaspersky IS' on target machines do not detect Grasshopper elements.


I highly reccomend reading the rest of this description if not studying the attached files found at the link below->

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Safari Woman
Note you can not detect or uninstall this CIA spying tool - but if you did find a way, it automatically reinstalls itself. 
  • April 7, 2017
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GodAlwaysWins
then there must be a backup program with a re-install program. how to find those?
  • April 10, 2017
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Walter D.
You mean microsoft and the CIA is spying on me? Hardly news.
  • April 8, 2017
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