Darknet Diaries · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Jack Rhysider reported that during the 2012 Syrian civil war, researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Citizen Lab discovered that the Syrian government used Blackshades malware to spy on pro-democracy activists, monitor protest plans, and compromise opposition communications.
“In the midst of this, researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Citizen Lab noticed that Syrian activists were getting hit with malware.”
“The Syrian government used Blackshades to spy on opposition activists and tried to suppress them by having total control of their computers.”