Cody Derespina at Foxnews.com
offers a piece on the WikiLeaks released of a trove of hacked CIA classified material.
Manning. Snowden. Whose name
is next to be added to the notorious list of government leakers?
The CIA is trying to answer
that question right now.
A day after WikiLeaks
released what it alleged to be the “entire hacking capacity of the CIA,” the
focus Wednesday began shifting to just who gave the stunning surveillance
information to the anti-secrecy website.
“There is heavy s--- coming
down,” said a veteran cyber contractor for the intelligence community who
previously worked in the breached unit, the CIA’s Center for Cyber
Intelligence.
The contractor told Fox News
that CCI has long maintained an internal database of information -- accessible
to anyone with proper credentials or security clearance -- that seemed to be
dumped in total to WikiLeaks. In its news release on the disclosure, WikiLeaks
said CCI had more than 5,000 registered users, a number alternatively referred
to as “absurd” and “a bit high” by security experts who spoke to Fox News. The
CIA declined comment to Fox News.
The FBI opened a federal
criminal investigation into the WikiLeaks disclosure on Wednesday, Fox News
confirmed. As the probe gets underway, experts said there’s a typical incident
response playbook they would use to narrow down the massive pool of suspects.
“They’re going to try to do
some forensic work because those documents probably have been changed [over
time], so that enables them to narrow down the period to when they were taken,”
said Alex Yampolskiy, the CEO of SecurityScorecard. “Once you say ‘this seems
like it was a snapshot from this particular time,’ then they can look at audit
logs of who had access to the document during that time frame.”
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