Lumen's Mike Benjamin: An old RAT with new tricks

Lumen's Mike Benjamin joins the podcast to discuss the recent ReverseRAT update, a malware scheme that was used to target government and energy-sector organizations in India and Afghanistan. Benjamin and his team at Lumen's security research division, Black Lotus Labs, have been closely following the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) threat. The new iteration ReverseRAT web camera access and the ability to steal files via USB drives, explains Benjamin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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