View, copy, download, edit, or even delete files.

Monitor user activity by keystroke loggers or spyware.

Hijack the system webcam and record videos.

Monitor web browsers and other computer apps to get search history, emails, chat logs, etc.

Get access to confidential info including usernames, passwords, social security numbers, and credit card accounts.

Since a remote access trojan enables administrative control, it is able to do almost everything on the victim machine. Once get into the victim’s machine, RAT malware will hide its harmful operations from either the victim or the antivirus or firewall and use the infected host to spread itself to other vulnerable computers to build a botnet. While targeted attacks by a motivated attacker may deceive desired targets into installing RAT scam via social engineering tactics, or even through temporary physical access of the desired machine.

For example, it is usually downloaded invisibly with an email attachment, torrent files, weblinks, or a user-desired program like a game. RAT trojan is typically installed on a computer without its owner’s knowledge and often as a trojan horse or payload.

It infects the target computer through specially configured communication protocols and enables the attacker to gain unauthorized remote access to the victim.

A remote access trojan (RAT), also called creepware, is a kind of malware that controls a system via a remote network connection.

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