Cybersecurity

CIA Unmasked as 'Very Dangerous' Longhorn Group Hacking Governments Worldwide

The Longhorn hackers, which use the same tools as those revealed to be used by the CIA, are a "very dangerous group" of cyber-attackers, Pierluigi Paganini of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Cyber G7 Workgroup told Radio Sputnik.

On Friday, security firm Symantec reported that the spying tools released in WikiLeaks' Vault 7 leak last month have been used against at least 40 targets in at least 16 different countries since at least 2011. 

According to WikiLeaks, the Vault 7 collection was leaked from within the CIA's Computer Operations Group. 

Symantec says that a hacking group it dubbed "Longhorn" has been using those same tools to hack at least 40 targets in 16 different countries, going back to at least 2011.