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WikiLeaks reveals CIA tool ‘Scribbles’ for document tracking	2017-05-08T01:35:00+06:00	false	surveillance tech data privacy cia microsoft	Olivier Falcoz	false	true	true	false	image alt caption relative <image path/url> <alt text> <text> false

The CIA is planting web beacons inside Microsoft Word documents to track whistleblowers, journalists and informants, according to WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks released details on what it said is a Central Intelligence Agency document tracking program called Scribbles, part of the agency’s 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.

WikiLeaks released information Friday about Scribbles as part of its ongoing Vault 7 Dark Matter release that began last month. Also released is what WikiLeaks said is Scribbles’ source code.

-- Tom Spring in ThreatPost - April 28, 2017