"The whole world knows that the CIA has a multilayered plan to foment popular revolutions and coups around the world-now we see that they are systematically using Russian hackers as cover," Colonel Igor Morozov, a veteran of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service and now a member of the Russian Senate, tells Newsweek. "With UMBRAGE and related projects, the CIA can not only increase its total number of attack types, but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the 'fingerprints' of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from," WikiLeaks claims in its summary-mentioning that UMBRAGE copied Russian hacking signatures. cyberattacks as the work of hackers from other nation states. Kovalev's sensational claim stems from a section of the WikiLeaks report that describes a CIA working group known as UMBRAGE that was allegedly tasked with coming up with ways to disguise U.S. The CIA has declined to comment on the authenticity of the WikiLeaks material-but on March 8 confirmed its "mission is to aggressively collect foreign intelligence overseas to protect America from terrorists, hostile nation states and other adversaries" as America's "first line of defense." The agency added that it "is CIA's job to be innovative cutting-edge.in protecting this country from enemies abroad." Related: Who was behind the CIA WikiLeaks dump? "It's like in a film-if you are caught or captured, the agency will disown all knowledge and blame the Russians."
"It's clear that the CIA's operatives have been conducting their own covert operations while disguising themselves as so-called Russian hackers," maintains General Nikolai Kovalev, who was Vladimir Putin's predecessor as head of Russia's Federal Security Service from 1996-98.
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In the wake of the WikiLeaks release, Russian state media quickly seized on a clause to argue it was the CIA, not Moscow's state-backed hackers, that was behind a series of politically damaging leaks from the Democratic Party last summer. But the leaks have also served as a highly useful propaganda tool for Moscow. The latest trove of documents released by WikiLeaks, which purports to reveal the CIA's "entire" arsenal of hacking tools, could ultimately do as much damage to the agency's operations as the revelations of Cold War–era spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.
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