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Trojan poses as privacy tool, spies on Iranian surfers |
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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Backdoored versions of a widely used privacy tool have surfaced in Iran, raising fears that its government is using the Trojanised software to spy on its citizens.
A free encrypted proxy tool called Simurgh – official website https://simurghesabz.net – is used by many Iranians to circumvent locally applied net censorship technologies. Recently a Trojanised version of the tool (Simurgh-setup.zip) has begun appearing on file-sharing networks and wares sites.
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