{"id":7093,"date":"2012-10-13T21:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2012-10-13T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T02:09:20","slug":"popular-rats-found-riddled-with-bugs-weak-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7093","title":{"rendered":"Popular RATs Found Riddled With Bugs, Weak Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The researchers, <a href=\"http:\/\/matasano.com\/research\/PEST-CONTROL.pdf\" target=\"new\">in conjunction with their research paper<\/a> (PDF), released tools for decrypting RAT traffic and proof-of-concept exploits for the bugs they found. They found that the tools include weak, or no, encryption: Bandook, for example, uses obfuscation, not encryption, to protect its traffic between the victim&#8217;s machine and the C&amp;C server.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/threat-intelligence\/167901121\/security\/vulnerabilities\/240008942\/popular-rats-found-riddled-with-bugs-weak-crypto.html\">Popular RATs Found Riddled With Bugs, Weak Crypto &#8211; Dark Reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A good understanding of their protocols is critical to network and system administrators deploying tools that can notice the presence of a RAT,&#8221; they said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RAT = Remote Administrative Tool which is a tool used by the bad guys to snoop on a victim.\u00a0 To the victim this is more commonly referred to as a trojan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers, in conjunction with their research paper (PDF), released tools for decrypting RAT traffic and proof-of-concept exploits for the bugs they found. They found that the tools include weak, or no, encryption: Bandook, for example, uses obfuscation, not encryption, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[322,894,698,592],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-keylogger","tag-rat","tag-security-research","tag-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7094,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}