Group-IB researchers analyze KGB RAT, a Windows Remote Access Trojan advertised on underground forums as being fully undetectable, featuring a built-in crypter, HVNC, credential theft, ransomware, and an unusual set of psychological harassment capabilities.
KGB RAT: A Fully Undetectable Windows Trojan Built to Spy, Steal, and Terrorize
About this summary. This is a short, independently written summary of an article first published by Group-IB. Cyber Security News did not report or verify the underlying story. Read the original: https://www.group-ib.com/blog/kgb-rat-windows-fud-trojan/
Source attribution: headline and facts are from Group-IB (group-ib.com). Summary method: excerpt of the source description. See our source attribution policy.
Related coverage
Security Affairs newsletter Round 599 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new…
Hunt.io Finds New Infrastructure Of BraZetsu Access Broker Months Before Disclosure
Hunt.io traced BraZetsu ‘s infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated. Group-IB researchers…
IQUALIF France Leak, IUT Paris Seine Breach, US IAB Auction, SMTP Credential Dump, and Apache Struts Exploit Sale
IQUALIF France Leak, IUT Paris Seine Breach, US IAB Auction, SMTP Credential Dump, and Apache Struts Exploit Sale SOCRadar Dark Web Team identified several new…
Malwarebytes earns another Top Product award in independent testing
Every few months, Malwarebytes gets a chance to test its mettle against real-world threats in an independent laboratory setting. And the latest round of results gives us…
Attack Surface Management in 2026: Why Point-in-Time Scans Can’t Keep Up With Cloud Sprawl
Cloud infrastructure now changes by the hour, yet many security teams still map their external attack surface once a quarter or once a year. That mismatch creates blind…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 116
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Threat Intel |…