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njRAT, also known as Bladabindi, [1] is a remote access tool (RAT) with user interface or trojan which allows the holder of the program to control the end-user's computer. It was first found in June 2013 with some variants traced to November 2012.
Beast is a Windows-based backdoor trojan horse, more commonly known in the hacking community as a Remote Administration Tool or a "RAT". It is capable of infecting versions of Windows from 95 to XP. [1] Written in Delphi and released first by its author Tataye in 2002, [2] it became quite popular due to its unique features.
In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is a malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy.
Sub7, or SubSeven or Sub7Server, is a Trojan horse - more specifically a Remote Trojan Horse - program originally released in February 1999. [1] [2] [3] Its name was derived from mobman's favourite band m.u.g mafia who had a song named subseven, the development of Sub7 is being continued.
Freund noticed that SSH connections were generating an unexpectedly high amount of CPU usage as well as causing errors in Valgrind, [9] a memory debugging tool. [10] Freund reported his finding to Openwall Project 's open source security mailing list, [ 9 ] which brought it to the attention of various software vendors. [ 10 ]
The RAT was distributed via a "booby-trapped Skype chat message" which consisted of a message with a Facebook icon which was actually an executable file that was designed to install DarkComet. [4] Once infected, the victim's machine would try to send the message to other people with the same booby-trapped Skype chat message.
The Shadow Brokers (TSB) is a hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016. [1] [2] They published several leaks containing hacking tools, including several zero-day exploits, [1] from the "Equation Group" who are widely suspected to be a branch of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.
The term script kiddie was first used in 1988. [1]In a Carnegie Mellon report prepared for the US Department of Defence in 2000, script kiddies are defined as . The more immature but unfortunately often just as dangerous exploiter of security lapses on the Internet.