How Samsung TV viewers were 'recorded via their sets by US spies

Watched by the 'Weeping Angels': How Samsung TV viewers were 'recorded via their sets by US spies who hacked into devices with a virus named after eerie Doctor Who villains'

MI5 worked with their US counterparts to develop software that convinced people their sets were switched off when in fact they were on and recording every word they say. British spies has been central to developing the hack of TVs connected to the internet, according to Wikileaks. The spooks also chose to name it after to Weeping Angels from Doctor Who - monsters who pretended to be stone statues before creeping up on unsuspecting victims. US intelligence has also devised a method of remotely controlling cars and crashing them, leaked data claims. WikiLeaks claimed the haul, which it dubbed Vault 7, Year Zero, exposed the agency's entire hacking tool kit, constituting an even bigger and more significant breach of US intelligence than the National Security Agency files leaked by analyst Edward Snowden.