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Two-year-old malware campaign plagues Ukrainians with Vermin, Quasar RATs

  • January 30, 2018
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January 30th, 2018 By Bradley Barth                                            

 

Two-year-old malware campaign plagues Ukrainians with Vermin, Quasar RATs 
Researchers have uncovered a two-year-old cyber espionage campaign that's been infecting Ukrainians with either a newly discovered remote access tool called Vermin or the more established Quasar RAT.
 
An analysis of Vermin, conducted by members of Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat research team, determined that the reconnaissance malware collects infected victims' keystrokes and clipboard data, and is also capable of deleting and downloading files, renaming files and folders, uploading and deleting files, and capturing audio and video.
 
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