As per the nearly 9,000 pages of Central Intelligence Agency documents leaked by WikiLeaks, the CIA used codenames like 'Brutal Kangaroo' and 'Weeping Angel' for hacks related to Windows drives and Samsung TVs respectively. The documents also describe malware attacks used by the CIA to survey users on Android and Linux systems like 'SwampMonkey' and 'Cutthroat'.

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Added on : 2017-03-08 15:01:32

As per the nearly 9,000 pages of Central Intelligence Agency documents leaked by WikiLeaks, the CIA used codenames like 'Brutal Kangaroo' and 'Weeping Angel' for hacks related to Windows drives and Samsung TVs respectively. The documents also describe malware attacks used by the CIA to survey users on Android and Linux systems like 'SwampMonkey' and 'Cutthroat'.

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