While dissidents in Iran and Syria risk their lives to struggle against their governments, a silent but possibly deadly battle is being waged in cyberspace.
University of Toronto’s spy-busting Citizen Lab has raised the alarm on a new tool that is used against opposition sympathizers who try to secretly bypass government censorship. The privacy-invading Trojan horse program can allow vital data from the victim’s computer to be stolen by political foes or criminals, with potentially dangerous consequences................
The Trojan horse is key-logging spyware installed in computers by hacked installation software for the Simurgh proxy tool — a program designed to allow access to blocked Internet sites, and popular with Iranians because it has a Farsi title............
It would give “persistent access to the victim’s computer,” as well as “data exfiltration” capabilities. It scoops basic details such as user names, and has key-logging capabilities that allow data on every window clicked and every keystroke entered to be sent to an unknown — possibly hostile — site.
The site that receives the spy data appears to be registered in Saudi Arabia, and some of the servers have been used in the United States.................
Iran itself has been targeted by a massive attack from a powerful computer virus known as “Flame.”
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