{"id":23387,"date":"2017-03-31T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T16:04:57","slug":"wikileaks-reveals-marble-proof-cia-disguises-their-hacks-as-russian-chinese-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23387","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Reveals “Marble”: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks As Russian, Chinese, Arabic…"},"content":{"rendered":"

WikiLeaks Reveals “Marble”: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks As Russian, Chinese, Arabic…<\/a><\/h3>\n
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WikiLeaks\u2019 latest Vault 7 release contains a batch of documents, named \u2018Marble\u2019, which detail CIA hacking tactics and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages.\u00a0 The tool was in use as recently as 2016.\u00a0 Per the WikiLeaks <\/a>release:<\/p>\n

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“The source code shows that Marble has test examples not just in English but also in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi. This would permit a forensic attribution double game,<\/strong> for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion,<\/strong> — but there are other possibilities, such as hiding fake error messages.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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RELEASE: CIA Vault 7\u00a0part 3 “Marble” https:\/\/<\/span>wikileaks.org\/vault7\/?marble#Marble%20Framework\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a>#<\/span>Vault7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest release is said to potentially allow for ‘thousands<\/a>‘ of cyber attacks to be attributed to the CIA which were originally blamed on foreign governments.<\/p>\n

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WikiLeaks said Marble hides fragments of texts that would allow for the author of the malware to be identified.<\/strong> WikiLeaks stated the technique is the digital equivalent of a specialized CIA tool which disguises English language text on US produced weapons systems before they are provided to insurgents.<\/div>\n

It\u2019s \u201cdesigned to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation” as “string obfuscation algorithms\u201d often link malware to a specific developer, according to the whistleblowing site.<\/p>\n

The source code released reveals Marble contains test examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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