Control of Infected Systems Through Remote Administration Tools (Detected by EDR)

Remote administration tools are software for managing and controlling terminals at remote locations. The tools can be used as work-at-home solutions in circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic and for the purpose of controlling, managing, and repairing unmanned devices remotely. Such remote control tools used for legitimate purposes are called RAT, meaning “Remote Administration Tools.”

Additionally, backdoor malware types such as Remcos RAT, njRAT, Quasar RAT, and AveMaria are called Remote Access Trojans (RAT) because these also make it possible …

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