CIA's "AngelFire" Modifies Windows' Boot Sector to Load Malware
Security Week | August 31, 2017
Wikileaks on Thursday published documents detailing AngelFire, a tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to load and execute implants on Windows-based systems.Similar to other “Vault7” tools that Wikileaks unveiled over the past several months, such as Grasshopper and AfterMidnight, AngelFire is a persistent framework targeting computers running Windows XP and Windows 7.