FAKEM RATs Disguise Their Traffic As Yahoo! Messenger To Avoid Detection

January 18, 2013 By Ali Loney

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Softpedia – (International) FAKEM RATs disguise their traffic as Yahoo! Messenger to avoid detection. A white paper published by Trend Micro detailed the way that a series of remote access trojans known as FAKEM disguises its traffic to appear as that of commonly used applications or HTML to avoid detection.

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Written by Ali Loney

Ali Loney is a Senior UX Designer at Walmart Labs. She is based in Canada and was the former Graphic Designer at Sonatype.