A RAT is a Remote Access Tool. But a RAT can also be a Remote Access Trojan, when in the hands of cybercriminals trying to spy on innocent users, or steal information for financial gain. Long term ...
A spam campaign hides a malicious executable behind file archive extensions. A spate of malicious emails with attachments delivering the NanoCore remote access trojan (RAT) is evading anti-malware and ...
A new malware spam email campaign is delivering the NanoCore remote access Trojan as a malicious Adobe icon to infect its victims, a new report by security firm Trustwave finds. The campaign begins ...
The NanoCore Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is being spread through malicious documents and uses an interesting technique to keep its process running and prevent victims from manually killing the system, ...
US authorities have sentenced an Arkansas man to 33 months in prison and two years of supervised release for aiding and abetting hackers by creating and selling malware. The man's name is Taylor ...
In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware ...
If your laptop or desktop is running Windows, you might want to make sure you’re up and running with the latest version of the operating system and your antivirus software. Researchers have discovered ...
A recently discovered attack campaign uses public cloud infrastructure to deliver variants of commodity RATs Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRATs to target users' data, researchers report. This campaign, ...