More Vault 7 leaks from WikiLeaks: Archimedes is the CIA's man-in-the-middle hacking tool

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WikiLeaks continues to release revealing documents from it Vault 7 cache. This time around the organization introduces us to a CIA tool called Archimedes -- previously known as Fulcrum. As before, there is little to confirm whether or not the tool is still in active use -- or, indeed, if it has actually ever been used -- but the documentation shows how it can be installed on a LAN to perform a man-in-the-middle attacks. The manual itself explains how Archimedes works: " Archimedes is used to redirect LAN traffic from a target’s computer through an attacker controlled computer before it… [Continue Reading]

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