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FireEye finds Gh0stRAT cyberespionage campaigns continue |
April 24, 2013
A well-known cyber-spying tool called Gh0st RAT is still being employed in stealthy malware attacks, according to a new report from security firm FireEye.FireEye, which specializes in malware detection, released data it collected from hundreds of its customers during 2012. It looked at 12 million different reports of suspicious activity, around 2,000 of which were classified as "advanced persistent threats" (APTs), the security industry's term for sophisticated, hard-to-detect attacks aimed at the long-term infiltration of organizations.Most of those 2,000 incidents employed Gh0st RAT, a remote access tool believed to have been developed in China that allows attackers to steal information from a victim's computers. In 2009, researchers with the Information Warfare Monitor, a computer security research project, and the University of Toronto reported an extensive cyber espionage campaign using Gh0st RAT that targeting more than 1,000 computers in 103 countries.Gh0st RAT is "a real important part of many types of APT campaigns because it is an effective tool," said Rob Rachwald, FireEye's senior director of market research.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2036267/fireeye-finds-gh0strat-cyberespionage-campaigns-continue.html#tk.rss_all
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