Security News > 2023 > March > International Law Enforcement Takes Down Infamous NetWire Cross-Platform RAT

A coordinated international law enforcement exercise has taken down the online infrastructure associated with a cross-platform remote access trojan known as NetWire.

"NetWire is a licensed commodity RAT offered in underground forums to non-technical users to carry out their own criminal activities," Europol's European Cybercrime Center said in a tweet.

It also comes with password-stealing and keylogging capabilities.

The U.S. Department of Justice said an investigation into the malware operation was launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2020, with the agency creating an account on the site and paying for a subscription to create a custom NetWire RAT instance.

NetWire, over the past year, has been used by multiple threat actors, including TA2541 and OPERA1ER, to break into targets of interest and harvest sensitive information.

"By removing the Netwire RAT, the FBI has impacted the criminal cyber ecosystem," Donald Alway, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said in a statement.

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