"Australian and European Police Shut Down Access to Popular Criminal Hacking Tool"
A widely-used remote-access hacking tool, called the Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM-RAT), was recently taken down by Australian and European law enforcement. The tool had been sold to a little over 14,000 buyers in 124 countries via the black market for about seven years. More than 115,000 different attacks were executed against Palo Alto Networks' customers through the use of IM-RAT. Officials have said that the tool was used by cybercriminals to steal different types of personal data from victims' machines such as photos, passwords, and videos. This article continues to discuss IM-RAT in relation to its widespread distribution, application in the execution of attacks, evolution, creator, and takedown by police.
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