Everytime they expose something like this, its to burn some assets being used by the white hats (or white hats doing the same to the black hats). Remember the whole Windows exploits that got exposed last year and M$ was forced to push fixes for them? These were intentional exploits that was being used by a CIA toolset to control machines. By exposing the exploit and getting it fixed, they burned those CIA tools.

Every news headline we see has a backstory to tell, if only we knew where to look. Thanks to Q, we are able to see even a fraction of that backstory