This is how athena works, the spyware of the company leaked by wikileaks

WikiLeaks continues its battle against the American intelligence services and its illegal practices. Thanks to the Vault 7 program, tools that the CIA uses to take advantage of vulnerabilities are presented every week. And the story continues.

Information about Athena has recently been leaked . This is CIA spyware. According to WikiLeaks, this is one of the most important tools that the CIA has. Do you want to know more about how Athena works?

Athena: Access to all computers

Athena is a spyware as we have told you. What makes it a particularly important tool is that it works with all versions of Windows. From XP to Windows 10. So that you have access to practically any computer in the world. Its way of operating is relatively simple. Infect a computer in order to take control of it. Thus, being able to control it remotely and do whatever they want with the computer.

All the data obtained was sent to a CIA server. Nothing is known about whether they still have such data, although it would not be a surprise if they did. This is malware dating from 2016, a manual from the beginning of 2016 has been leaked, although there are other reports that state that it was created in 2015. More or less on the same dates that Windows 10 was released. Written in Python, it is one of the many cyber battle tools of the American agencies.

WikiLeaks continues to fight hard against these types of tools. Did you know about the existence of Athena? What do you think about what WikiLeaks does?