Now Wikileaks has released another CIA hacking tool dubbed CouchPotato from its vault seven series documents which can be used to capture video streams remotely.
Wikileaks has released another CIA hacking tool dubbed CouchPotato from its vault seven series documents which can be used to capture videos remotely.Wikileaks has released the user guide for the tool Couchpotato which is designed to remotely hack and capture still images and RTSP/H.264 video streams.
Below is the full statement posted on Wikileaks:Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for the CouchPotato project of the CIA. CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams. It provides the ability to collect either the stream as a video file (AVI) or capture still images (JPG) of frames from the stream that is of significant change from a previously captured frame. It utilizes ffmpeg for video and image encoding and decoding as well as RTSP connectivity. CouchPotato relies on being launched in an ICE v3 Fire and Collect compatible loader.Earlier Wikileaks has released another CIA tool named Dumbo project which can be used to detect, corrupt and delete the recordings in webcams and microphones, but it need physical access
CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams. It provides the ability to collect either the stream as a video file (AVI) or capture still images (JPG) of frames from the stream that is of significant change from a previously captured frame.However, in the case CouchPotato it can be done remotely or from outside the network.Here below is the overview of Couchpotato in the leaked document :(S//NF) CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams. It provides the ability to collect either the stream as a video file (AVI) or capture still images (JPG) of frames from the stream that is of significant change from a previously captured frame. CouchPotato utilizes ffmpeg for video and image encoding and decoding as well as RTSP connectivity. In order to minimize the size of the DLL binary, many of the audio and video codecs along with other unnecessary features have been removed from the version of ffmpeg that CouchPotato is built with. pHash, an image hashing algorithm, has been incorporated into ffmpeg's image2 demuxer to provide image change detection capabilities. CouchPotato relies on being launched in an ICE v3 Fire and Collect compatible loaderImplementation and impact of this leakage and tools used by CIA are still to known.