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Russia: CIA Hacking Leaks Shows World In Great Danger

Russia has said that US security services must provide a full response to WikiLeaks’ accusations regarding hacking by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that US spy agencies must be held fully accountable following the recent revelations about the CIA’s hacking techniques, adding that if found to be true the acts of espionage by Washington represent “a great” danger to the world. “If this information is confirmed, it would be desirable for the US security services to respond fully and adequately to the released documents with specific facts,” Zakharova told a briefing, adding “And if this information is confirmed, then this is a great danger to the world and international security” Press TV reports: On March 7, whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks published the first part of the Vault 7 series, which constituted thousands of documents from the CIA that purportedly revealed the agency’s hacking and spying secrets. The leaked files show that US spy agency appeared to have developed or collected techniques to hack into Mac OS X, Windows, Linux computer operating systems, as well as Android and iOS software for mobile phones. The agency had also apparently devised a technique to target smart TV sets, [...]