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Unwanted guests harvest your information.
Season 7 · Episode 303

Unwanted guests harvest your information.

Research Saturday · N2K Networks

October 14, 202317m 21s

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Show Notes

Amit Malik from Uptycs joins us to discuss their research titled "Unwanted Guests: Mitigating Remote Access Trojan Infection Risk." Uptycs threat research team identified a new threat referred to as QwixxRAT. The Uptycs team discovered this tool being widely distributed by the threat actor through Telegram and Discord platforms.

The research states "QwixxRAT is meticulously designed to harvest an expansive range of information from browser histories and credit card details, to keylogging insights." This newly found tool poses a risk to both businesses and individual users

The research can be found here:

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