Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:50:11 +0000

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer responsible for authoring and selling “Orcus RAT,” a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate Remote Administration Tool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a Remote Access Trojan.

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