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title: "WikiLeaks reveals CIA tool Scribbles for document tracking"
date: 2017-05-08T01:35:00+06:00
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> The CIA is planting web beacons inside Microsoft Word documents to track whistleblowers, journalists and informants, according to WikiLeaks.
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> WikiLeaks released details on what it said is a Central Intelligence Agency document tracking program called Scribbles, part of the agencys effort to keep tabs on documents leaked to whistleblowers and journalists. Scribbles allegedly embeds a web beacon-style tag into watermarks located on Microsoft Word documents that can report document analytics back to the CIA.
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> WikiLeaks [released information Friday](https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Scribbles) about Scribbles as part of its ongoing [Vault 7 Dark Matter](https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/releases/) release that began [last month](https://threatpost.com/wikileaks-dump-shows-cia-interdiction-of-iphone-supply-chain/124540/). Also released is what WikiLeaks said is Scribbles source code.
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> -- Tom Spring in [ThreatPost](https://threatpost.com/wikileaks-reveals-cia-tool-scribbles-for-document-tracking/125299/) - April 28, 2017