WikiLeaks on Tuesday dumped thousands of documents it said came from the CIA’s cyber espionage department, a catastrophic breach that exposes sophisticated covert tools for hacking everything from computers to TVs to popular social apps. The release is ...

The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense congressional scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), which tracks social media posts of Americans and shares that information with other law enforcement agencies.

The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned ...

WikiLeaks began publishing a cache of data pilfered from the CIA several weeks ago, and the process isn't anywhere close to over. The last round of leaks covered the covert tools used by the CIA to exploit Android, Windows, and other platforms. This time ...

Just as civil liberties groups challenge the legality of the UK intelligence agency’s mass surveillance programs, a catalog of exploit tools for monitoring and manipulation is leaked online. The Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a ...