Warez has a 'Z'
available on wares sites. sounds like step toe and son.
Backdoored versions of a widely used privacy tool have surfaced in Iran, raising fears that its government is using the Trojanised software to spy on its citizens. A free encrypted proxy tool called Simurgh – official website https://simurghesabz.net – is used by many Iranians to circumvent locally applied net censorship …
Why would Iran send the data to US servers, controlled by a Saudi company? In other words, why would Iran involve two sworn enemies in spying on its own people?
I have no doubt that Iran is an oppressive regime capable of spying on its own citizenry (like most governments), but this seems like an odd way to go about it.
You don't have to be too cynical to imagine that actually the USA might be behind this? Perhaps looking for risk-taking dissidents that it can utilize for its own purposes? That sounds more plausible to me...
There is a good talk on youtube about Iran and TOR, DNS poisoning and trojan binaries. Also the ways Iran played with TOR not in a brute force way but by much more subtle methods such as throttling it down to single digit Kbps , trying to get people to break out of secure methods in fustration. Which I've done faced with a website that sells the one item I want, yet blocking cookies, scripts, ads, referer [sic] make it fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ&t=63m0s 63 minutes in.