The leaks of sensitive cyber tools will not impede the intelligence community’s push to adopt cloud computing, according to a top intelligence official.

The Vault 7 leaks became public in March 2017 and gave an unprecedented look at the CIA's hacking capabilities.

The suspect was once employed in technical directorates inside the CIA and NSA.

The Senate Intelligence Committee hopes to learn more about how American spies handle the disclosure of software vulnerabilities continuously discovered by the 16 spy agencies, which are occasionally used as a weak point to hack into computer networks.

The CIA hacking tools called Gyrfalcon and BothanSpy, as described in documents released by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, are "effective, but surprisingly unsophisticated," according to Tatu Ylonen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin declares that Russia has never hacked another state, but doesn't condemn "patriotic" citizens who might take it upon themselves to do so