Dark Agent: The Dangerous Double Life of Joshua Schulte.

By Gist Hub

Joshua Schulte was a rising star in the CIA's cyber warfare unit, designing advanced hacking tools to arm America's spies with cutting-edge technological capabilities. But beneath his veneer of talent lay a toxic combination of ego, spite and instability.
When petty workplace conflicts spiral into seething resentment towards his superiors, Schulte secretly begins plotting an unprecedented act of revenge from within America's most covert agency. He methodically pilfers a motherlode of classified documents detailing the CIA's arsenal of cyber weapons and passes them to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks to publish publicly as "Vault 7".
As WikiLeaks' gargantuan Vault 7 trove sends shockwaves through the Intelligence Community in 2017, the CIA scrambles to assess catastrophic damage to its operations as its digital attack tools are exposed globally. They desperately hunt for an insider mole as the leaks lay waste to millions invested in secret cyber warfare R&D projects. Who perpetrated this 'Pearl Harbor' of intelligence breaches and why?
In Dark Agent, Gist Hub untangles the psychological profile and complex motivations of the most damaging turncoat in CIA history. Drawing on investigative findings, trial evidence and inner-agency sources, they chart his precocious early talent hiding sinister tendencies towards deceit and control. As his sociopathic and vindictive traits spiral into criminality, eventually even child exploitation materials are uncovered on his devices.
With America reeling from the largest hemorrhage of CIA secrets ever publicly leaked to the internet, how far will the betrayed agency go to prevent further intelligence assets from exposure? Dark Agent is a gripping true-life spy tale of technological prowess warped by ego and rage. It reveals the devastating consequences of unchecked hubris and spite metastasizing into treason by a once promising cryptographic prodigy in the top-secret world of cyber warfare and espionage.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CTYGZGF7
• ISBN13: 9798878436359
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"