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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new malicious campaign is spreading LokiBot and NanoCore trojans under the guise of an ISO file claiming to be an invoice. An ongoing spam campaign has been spotted using ISO disk image file ...

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 ...

The author of the notorious remote access Trojan NanoCore has been sentenced on Friday (23 February) to nearly three years in prison for promoting and selling the malware on the popular hacking site ...

The author of the very popular Nanocore RAT has pleaded guilty this week, admitting to developing malware that was used by other crooks to infect countless of computers across the globe, stealing data ...

A new malspam campaign is abusing icon files to dupe victims into executing the NanoCore Trojan. On Thursday, SpiderLabs at Trustwave said a recent phishing campaign has outlined a technique for ...

An Arkansas man has been sentenced to serve almost three years in federal prison for developing advanced malware that he knew would be used to steal passwords, surreptitiously turn on webcams, and ...

The barrier for entry to the Windows compromise club has been lowered by a free attack tool from the dark web Another day, another threat for Microsoft Windows users. Earlier this month it was ...