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In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme. Continue reading Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme
A powerful, easy-to-use password stealing program known as Agent Tesla has been infecting computers since 2014, but recently this malware strain has seen a surge in popularity — attracting more than 6,300 customers who pay monthly fees to license the software. Although Agent Tesla includes a multitude of features designed to help it remain undetected on host computers, the malware’s apparent creator seems to have done little to hide his real-life identity. Continue reading Who Is Agent Tesla?
Prosecutors said that the 21-year-old LuminosityLink author had no respect for the law and showed contempt for moral rules and social norms. Continue reading Maker of LuminosityLink RAT gets 30 months in the clink
A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly … Continue reading RAT author jailed for 30 months, ordered to hand over $725k worth of Bitcoin
A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly … Continue reading RAT author jailed for 30 months, ordered to hand over $725k worth of Bitcoin
A 21-year-old Kentucky man who previously pleaded guilty to developing, marketing, and selling an infamous remote access trojan (RAT) called LuminosityLink has now been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
According to a press release published Monday by… Continue reading LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Author Gets 30-Months Prison Sentence
Security researchers have been tracking a sustained cyberespionage campaign against Ukrainian government institutions that uses a combination of free and custom-made remote access Trojans (RATs). The malware programs involved in the years-long campaig… Continue reading Cyberespionage Campaign in Ukraine Uses Free and Custom RATs
The author of the LumunosityLink malware pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday. Colton Grubs, a 21-year-old man from Kentucky, faced up to 25 years in prison had the case gone to trial. LumunosityLink first earned a spotlight in 2015 when Proofpoint researchers looked past the benign advertisements for the product and found a “very aggressive key logger that injects its code in almost every running process on the computer.” The malware was sold for $40 as a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that, according to the product’s advertising, “allows system administrators to manage a large amount of computers concurrently.” In reality, it was malware that allowed over 6,000 customersto take over thousands of computers in 78 countries. Here was LuminosityLink’s website boasting about “powerful surveillance” capabilities: LuminosityLink was sold on HackForums, an infamous information security community that routinely features heavily in cybercrime indictments. The Mirai botnet found its way to […]
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A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “LuminosityLink,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide. Continue reading ‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty