Pandemic: the new tool of the CIA to hack computers

The CIA continues to display a vast arsenal of tools with which to illegally access Microsoft users' computers. Again, they have been leaked by WikiLeaks in their weekly leaks.

Pandemic: The new CIA tool to hack computers

The new tool is Pandemic. It manages to access Microsoft computers and get hold of the files present on it remotely, and without the user knowing it.

What do we know about Pandemic?

The first data about the tool date from spring 2014. It is a tool that can access a computer in just 15 seconds. How do they gain access? Apparently, generally through malicious applications or Trojans. They replace the original software with its version. In this way they can access the user's computer.

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Its Pandemic name derives from the ease with which it can spread and infect other computers. It has been mentioned that it usually achieves access through applications or software, although from WikiLeaks they have not wanted to reveal the exact way in which it manages to enter a computer. It is assumed that the mentioned form is the real one, although there seems to be more.

There appear to be even more Pandemic documents available, but WikiLeaks has not released them. We hope to know more data soon. Also to know if it is still active, which seems to be the case, and the dangers that this can entail. Without a doubt, the war between WikiLeaks and the American security agencies has not slowed down, nor does it appear that it will.