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 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 ...

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 ...

Attackers are always looking for new tricks to distribute malware without them being detected by antivirus scanners and secure email gateways. This was illustrated in a new phishing campaign that ...

Researchers have spotted an ongoing tax-themed malicious email campaign that is delivering the NanoCore remote access trojan (RAT) as its malware payload. Anthony Kasza and Tyler Halfpop, malware ...