Regular Testing Essential to Stop Hacker Access

1. RATs, or Remote Access Trojans (aka Remote Administration Tools), can give hackers total remote control of any compromised system(s). Once this type of malware payload is successfully delivered, through a phishing email, USB delivery or a malicious site, a hacker can easily get up to all kinds of costly mischief.
2. This week, reports surfaced that a banking Trojan employing RAT technology known as Neverquest is poised to explode in the coming months.
3. What do RATs do?
   • “Put simply, a RAT is malware that gives criminals a backdoor to the infected system. 
   • Once a RAT payload has been delivered, a hacker will have all the access and privileges to everything on the system or device the user does. 
   • Most APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) employ some kind of RAT technology because of the absolute power it gives an attacker to do basically whatever they want.
   
   Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1628513#ixzz2mzHjfpat
    
    
   
   
    

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1628513#ixzz2mzHIjXn3