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Author Kills DarkComet Spyware After Syria Uses It

Posted by Unknown on Monday July 9, 2012 @11:43AM from the evil-doer-with-a-conscience dept.

judgecorp writes "DarkcoderSc (Jean-Pierre Lesueur) has ended the DarkComet Remote Access Tool (RAT) project, after it emerged that the Syrian government had used the software to spy on its opponents. The tool was also used to target Mac OS X systems last year."

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Re:Interesting. by chinasandstone · 2012-07-09 15:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Prosecute authors of remote administration tool by chinasandstone · 2012-07-09 15:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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