Wikileaks released the documentation for the Athena Spyware, a malware that could infect and remote control almost any Windows machine.

Wikileaks released the documentation for the Athena Spyware, a malware that could infect and remote control almost any Windows machine.

Last Friday, Wikileaks released the documentation for AfterMidnight and Assassin malware platforms, today the organization leaked a new batch of the CIA Vault 7 dump that includes the documentation related to a spyware framework dubbed Dubbed Athena /Hera.

The batch of CIA files includes a user manual of the Athena platform, an overview of the technology, and a demo on how to use the malware.

Reading the documents it is possible to discover that any Windows systems could be infected by the two spyware, Athena works for XP through Windows 10 and Hera for Windows 8 through Windows 10.

The Athena / Hera malware were used by the CIA to take remote control over the infected Windows machines remotely.

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