![]() ![]() Mitnick, who has used Dark Comet in security demonstrations, doesn't think Leseur should have abandoned his tool because it was being used illegally. "It's not the same."īlackshades, coincidentally, is now being used against the Syrian activists much in the same way that Dark Comet was, says Marquis-Boire. "The Blackshades author was in charge of a carding operation," he says. Lesueur says that it did not affect his decision. "I don't want to lose my life for such a little thing." "I removed all before one day it happened," he says. He started to worry about being arrested. Though he wasn't the one doing the illegal activity, it was clear that his software was being misused - not just by the Syrian government, but by untalented hackers Lesueur calls "script-kiddies." I can't imagine that expected anything like this to come from his project."Īt first, Lesueur wrote a removal tool, so victims could uninstall Dark Comet, but he kept the project alive. "I don't think that this amount of pressure has ever been placed on the developer of a RAT before. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, antivirus companies, and online activists "kept up steady stream of postings and reports of the use of Dark Comet in Syria," says John Scott-Railton, a doctoral student at UCLA School of Public Affairs who has worked closely on the issue of malicious software in Syria. Image: John Scott-RailtonĪs word of Dark Comet's use got out, Lesueur's part-time project suddenly came under the spotlight. Dark Comet was packaged with malicious software that would quietly install it when victims opened this. ![]()
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