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Researchers say pentesting software being used for botnets Cisco Talos says criminals are using one research company's testing tools to set up and run botnets.…

A new email campaign includes a Microsoft Office Publisher file with malicious URLs leading to the FlawedAmmyy RAT.

This brand-new RAT represents the latest escalation in an ongoing malware arms race that extends even to commodity malware.

A newly discovered remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed Parasite HTTP includes a broad range of protections, including sandbox detection, anti-debugging, anti-emulation, and more, Proofpoint reports....

Hundreds of thousands of emails are delivering weaponized PDFs containing malicious SettingContent-ms files.

An ongoing espionage campaign aimed at Ukraine is leveraging three different remote access Trojans (RATs), ESET security researchers warn. read more

A Kentucky man admitted in a U.S. court to developing and distributing the remote access Trojan known as LuminosityLink. read more

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called "LuminosityLink," a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of...

RAT may be short for Remote Access Trojan, but the word also refers to a well-known type of rodent...

This is the first evidence of the China-linked threat actor's activity since hacked the U.K. government and military in 2017 (which wasn't made public until 2018).