Security News

NanoCore RAT Author Pleads Guilty (Security Week)
2017-07-27 13:55

A Hot Springs, Arkansas man this week pleaded guilty to creating two malicious programs, including the NanoCore RAT (Remote Access Trojan). read more

Creator of Nanocore RAT Pleads Guilty to Aiding CyberCriminals (The Hackers News)
2017-07-26 23:54

A programmer who was arrested in March this year—not because he hacked someone, but because he created and distributed a remote access software that helped cyber criminals—has finally pleaded...

NanoCore RAT creator pleads guilty (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 22:41

26-year-old Taylor Huddleston, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty today to charges of aiding and abetting computer intrusions. According to the statement of facts filed with the plea...

Adwind RAT Returns! Cross-Platform Malware Targeting Aerospace Industries (The Hackers News)
2017-07-11 04:16

Hackers and cyber criminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While other operating systems are more widely in use, cybercriminals have now...

EternalBlue Exploit Spreading Gh0st RAT, Nitol (Threatpost)
2017-06-02 18:32

FireEye said threat actors are using the NSA's EternalBlue exploit of the same Microsoft SMBv1 vulnerability as WannaCry to spread Nitol and Gh0st RAT.

If you downloaded HandBrake for Mac, you could be infected with Proton RAT (Help Net Security)
2017-05-08 13:10

A mirror download server of HandBrake, a popular open source video conversion app for Mac, has been compromised, and the legitimate app .dmg file switched with a Trojanized version containing the...

Stealthy RAT Targeting North Korea Since 2014 (Threatpost)
2017-05-04 19:55

Cisco has uncovered a remote administration tool called Konni that it says has been used in attacks against government agencies and public organizations linked to North Korea.

Malware Hunter Crawls Internet Looking for RAT C2s (Threatpost)
2017-05-02 18:39

A new crawler from Shodan and Recorded Future called Malware Hunter seeks out command and control servers managing endpoints infected with remote access Trojans and other malware.