Activist’s PC was infected with Xtreme RAT, a backdoor tool for remotely controlling and accessing PCs. Activist had become infected after accepting a file over Skype from a known contact which he believed would help him hide his PC’s hardware MAC address from Government snoopers. The file, MACAddressChanger.exe, turned out to be malicious and the contact had already been arrested before the call, raising the likelihood that the Syrian Government was behind the attack. French researchers have gone public over a Skype security flaw that could compromise users’ IP addresses.”]