Behind BlackShades: What Skype Users in Oppressive Regimes Need to Know Now
In June 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with the Citizen Lab, a division of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, released information on a new remote access Trojan (RAT) horse virus called BlackShades. The virus was discovered in Syria, where it targeted the computers of Syrian activists who…
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