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Syria Uses Skype Malware to Spy on Activists: Tech Firm

Impersonators send infected files

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted May 4, 2012 4:54 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Syrian government is hacking into the computers of activists and secretly surveilling them by spreading malicious software through Skype, reports TechWeek Europe. Recently, an activist thought she was Skype-chatting with an ally, but she suddenly realized her friend was in jail and could not...   Read full story »

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