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Around 400 people have been killed in the anti-regime protests across Syria, according to rights activists

The Syrian Regime Supporters have launched a Spyware attack

directed towards the opposition activists. This was according to

an IT Specialist who was a former international aid worker.

It was also found by a US based international software maker,

based on analysis requested by CNN. Sources say it was written

for cyberespionage campaign and it passes information to a

serverat a government-owned telecommunications company in Syria.

Supporters of dictator Bashar al-Assad first steal the identities

of opposition activists, then impersonate them in online chats,

said software engineer Dishad Othman. They gain the trust of

other users to pass out Trojan horse viruses and encourage people

to open them sources said.

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