More coming — Assange

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will publish more confidential documents on the US Central Intelligence Agency once a ‘‘key attack code’’ has been disarmed.

Speaking online from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he said his group would work with technology companies to help defend them against CIA hacking tools, details of which he disclosed earlier this week.

Companies had asked for more details about the CIA cyberespionage toolkit, Assange said, adding: ‘‘We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the technical details we have.’’

He said some of the firms had already put countermeasures in place, but others wanted more information.

‘‘WikiLeaks has a lot more information on what has been going on with the cyber weapons programme,’’ he said.

He added that WikiLeaks wants to disarm the CIA’s ‘‘key attack code’’ before publishing more material.

The whistleblowing website published thousands of documents it claims reveal the various hacking tools used by the CIA in the US, including techniques that target various consumer software products, including Windows, Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS.

WikiLeaks said software was developed to turn Samsung smart TVs into listening devices, a project codenamed Weeping Angel, which the report claims also included input from the UK’s MI5. — Reuters