DarkComet is a remote access trojan (RAT) developed by Jean-Pierre Lesueur (known as DarkCoderSc[2]), an independent programmer and computer security coder from France.
[1] As of August 2018, the program's development "has ceased indefinitely", and downloads are no longer offered on its official website.
People in Syria began using secure connections to bypass the government's censorship and the surveillance of the internet.
Once DarkComet was linked to the Syrian regime, Lesueur stopped developing the tool, stating, “I never imagined it would be used by a government for spying,” he said.
“If I had known that, I would never have created such a tool.”[1] In 2012 Arbos Network company found evidence of DarkComet being used to target military and gamers by unknown hackers from Africa.
[5] In the wake of the January 7, 2015, attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, hackers used the "#JeSuisCharlie" slogan to trick people into downloading DarkComet.
DarkComet was disguised as a picture of a newborn baby whose wristband read "Je suis Charlie."