New and improved: Researchers discover Parasite HTTP RAT and upgraded Kronos banking trojan

25th July, 2018 By Bradley Barth
 
Researchers from Proofpoint have announced the discovery of a brand new remote access trojan, and an upgraded version of an old banking trojan -- both of which have been used in recent phishing campaigns.
 
The RAT, a modular malware program called Parasite HTTP, was observed for sale on dark web marketplaces, offering such features as sandbox detection, anti-debugging and anti-emulation. The banking trojan is a new version of Kronos, the malware U.S. federal prosecutors allege was created by Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who found a kill switch to stop the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks.
 
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