Decade of the RATs - remote access trojans
Cross-platform APT espionage attacks targeting Linux, Windows and Android
For the corporations, government agencies and other organisations around the world who continue to be the targets of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups, recent years could aptly be described as the Decade of the RATs - remote access trojans.
This whitepaper examines the activities of five adversarial groups who have spent the better part of the last decade successfully targeting organisations in cross-platform attacks while operating relatively, if not entirely, undetected in multiple strategic and economic espionage operations.
Download it now for a threat intelligence assessment of the strategic and tactical use of novel malware and attack techniques employed by threat actors.
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