The Vault 7, Inside the CIA’s Plot to Assassinate Julian Assange

The Vault 7 revelations led to a plot by the CIA to assassinate the publisher Julian Assange. Vault 7 is a codename for a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish in 2017. They included almost 9,000 documents and files, which revealed CIA electronic surveillance technologies and developed software intended to crack any Android smartphone or Apple iPhone, including some that could take full control of the devices.     In fact, Wikileaks alleges that the CIA has a sophisticated unit in its Mobile Development Branch that develops zero-day exploits and malware to “infest, control and exfiltrate data from…