Couchpotato: Cia Hacking Tool To Remotely Spy On Video Streams Inward Real-Time

After disclosing CIA's strategies to hijack as well as manipulate webcams as well as microphones to corrupt or delete recordings, WikiLeaks has right away published roughly other Vault vii leak, revealing CIA's powerfulness to spy on video streams remotely in real-time.

Dubbed 'CouchPotato,' document leaked from the CIA details how the CIA agents purpose a remote tool to stealthy collect RTSP/H.264 video streams.

Real Time Streaming Protocol, or RTSP, is a network command protocol designed for purpose inward amusement as well as communication systems for controlling streaming media servers.

CouchPotato gives CIA hackers powerfulness to "collect either the current equally a video file (AVI) or capture withal images (JPG) of frames from the current that are of pregnant modify from a previously captured frame," a leaked CIA manual reads.

The tool utilises FFmpeg for video as well as icon encoding as well as decoding as well as Real Time Streaming Protocol connectivity.

The CouchPotato tool works stealthily without leaving whatsoever show on the targeted systems because it has been designed to back upward ICE v3 "Fire as well as Collect" loader, which is an in-memory code execution (ICE) technique that runs malicious code without the module code beingness written to the disk.

However, neither Wikileaks nor the leaked user ask details how the way penetrates into the targeted systems at the showtime place, precisely since the publication has previously leaked many CIA malware, exploits as well as hacking tools to become into a network, the way mightiness own got been using CouchPotato inward combining amongst other tools.

Previous Vault vii CIA Leaks

Since March, WikiLeaks has published xx batches of "Vault 7" series, which includes the latest as well as in conclusion calendar week leaks, along amongst the next batches:

• Imperial — Details of at to the lowest degree three CIA-developed hacking tools as well as implants designed to target PCs running Apple Mac OS X as well as dissimilar flavours of Linux operating systems.
• UCL/Raytheon — An alleged CIA contractor, which analysed in-the-wild malware as well as hacking tools as well as submitted at to the lowest degree v reports to the way for assistance the CIA developed its ain malware.
• Highrise — An alleged CIA projection that permit the spying way stealthy collects as well as forwards stolen information from compromised smartphones to its server via SMSes.
• BothanSpy as well as Gyrfalcon — 2 alleged CIA implants that permit the CIA intercept as well as exfiltrate SSH credentials from targeted Windows as well as Linux PCs using dissimilar assail vectors.
• OutlawCountry – An alleged CIA projection that allowed the spying way to hack as well as remotely spy on systems running Linux OS.
• ELSA – Alleged CIA malware that tracks geo-location of targeted computers as well as laptops running the Microsoft Windows OS.
• Brutal Kangaroo – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tool suite for Microsoft Windows OS used past times the CIA agents to target unopen networks or air-gap computers within an organisation or corporation without requiring whatsoever straight access.
• Cherry Blossom – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 framework employed past times the way to monitor the Internet activity of the targeted systems past times exploiting flaws inward Wi-Fi devices.
• Pandemic – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 CIA's projection that allowed the spying way to plough Windows file servers into covert assail machines that tin silently infect other PCs of involvement within the same network.
• Athena – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spyware framework that the way designed to own got total command over the infected Windows systems remotely as well as works against every version of Windows OS–from Windows XP to Windows 10.
• AfterMidnight as well as Assassin – 2 alleged CIA malware frameworks for the Microsoft Windows platform that's meant to monitor as well as written report dorsum actions on the infected remote host PC as well as execute malicious actions.
• Archimedes – Man-in-the-middle assail tool reportedly developed past times the CIA to target computers as well as laptops within a Local Area Network (LAN).
• Scribbles – Software supposedly designed to embed 'web beacons' into confidential files as well as documents, allowing the CIA to rail insiders as well as whistleblowers.
• Grasshopper – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 framework that allowed the spying way to rapidly practise custom malware for breaking into Microsoft Windows OS as well as bypassing antivirus protection.
• Marble – Source code of a undercover anti-forensic framework used past times the CIA agents to shroud the actual source of its malware.
• Dark Matter – Hacking tools the spying way used to target iPhones as well as Macs.
• Weeping Angel – Spying tool used past times the CIA to infiltrate smart TVs, as well as transforming them into covert microphones.
• Year Zero – CIA hacking tools as well as exploits for pop hardware as well as software.

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