Workflow and collaboration tools like Slack and Discord have been infiltrated by threat actors, who are abusing their legitimate functions to evade security and deliver info-stealers, remote-access trojans (RATs) and other malware. The pandemic-induced shift to remote work drove business processes onto these collaboration platforms in 2020, and predictably, 2021 has ushered in a new […]
Posts Tagged ‘Remote Access Trojans’
07
Apr
2021
What is a RAT? In the late 1990s, when the internet was still young, it was common for tech-savvy kids to scare their friends by controlling their PCs remotely. They would eject the CD tray, swap the mouse buttons, or change the desktop colors. To the unwitting user, it looked like a ghost was taking […]
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03
Aug
2015
Of all the malware online, Remote Access Trojans (RATs) account for nearly 70 percent. A new report from Digital Citizens Alliance, a self-described coalition focused on internet threats, deep dives into the RATs world with a particular focus on YouTube. The group’s eight-month research period brought up thousands of RAT tutorials on YouTube, the group […]
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