You dirty RAT! Part 1 – DarkComet

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You dirty RAT! Part 1 – DarkComet
Botnet	DarkComet
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 / June 9, 2012
Editor/Conference	Malwarebytes
Link	http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2012/06/you-dirty-rat-part-1-darkcomet/ (Archive copy)
Author	Adam Kujawa
Type

Abstract

“ 0 Comments By Adam Kujawa June 9, 2012 In Malware Intelligence

Last week, I talked a little about the Flame Trojan and how much the average user would need to worry about being infected with it, which is none. State-sponsored RAT malware, like Flame, would likely not infect average users and even in the off chance that it did, the operators behind the malware would probably remove the Trojan before being discovered. Its purpose is for very specifically targeted cyber-espionage, not stealing your Facebook password.

So are you completely safe from malware like Flame? Well not exactly. Take out the state-sponsored aspect of Flame and you’ve got a RAT or Remote Administration Trojan, of which there are many out there that are used every single day to spy on the average people. Before you get too freaked out, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and removes these threats all the time, so don’t worry too much about being a victim as long as you properly protect your system.

This blog post is one of many which I am going to use to:

Discuss some of the RAT malware currently seen in the wild What they can do How they work How to protect yourself from them

Bibtex

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   author = {Adam Kujawa},
   title = {You dirty RAT! Part 1 – DarkComet},
   date = {09},
   month = Jun,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2012/06/you-dirty-rat-part-1-darkcomet/}},
 }