Spying campaigns presently being conducted by the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) could be disrupted by another CIA data leak . The whistle - blowing site has published a CIA code that is deployed to hide the origins of malware used by the agency in its surveillance operations . The code could be used to create a "signature" for CIA malware, said one virus hunter. Recent leaks have only detailed the ways that the CIA spies on targets . However , the latest release " seems designed to directly disrupt ongoing CIA operations and attribute previous successes " , according to Nicholas Weaver , a computer security researcher at the University of California at Berkeley .
Spying campaigns presently being conducted by the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) could be disrupted by another CIA data leak . The whistle - blowing site has published a CIA code that is deployed to hide the origins of malware used by the agency in its surveillance operations . Recent leaks have only detailed the ways that the CIA spies on targets . However , the latest release " seems designed to directly disrupt ongoing CIA operations and attribute previous successes " , according to Nicholas Weaver , a computer security researcher at the University of California at Berkeley .