CERT-UA Warns: Dark Crystal RAT Targets Ukrainian Defense via Malicious Signal Messages

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is warning of a new campaign that targets the defense sectors with Dark Crystal RAT aka DCRat. The campaign, detected earlier this month, has been found to target both employees of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex and individual...

Low-rent RAT Worries Researchers

For about the price of a cup of Starbucks latte, a hacker is renting out a remote access trojan designed to backdoor targeted networks. Dubbed as Dark Crystal RAT or DCRat, the malware is being peddled online to hackers in Russian by a lone rookie malware writer with a penchant for cut-rate...

Analyzing Dark Crystal RAT, a C# Backdoor

The FireEye Mandiant Threat Intelligence Team helps protect our customers by tracking cyber attackers and the malware they use. The FLARE Team helps augment our threat intelligence by reverse engineering malware samples. Recently, FLARE worked on a new C variant of Dark Crystal RAT DCRat that the...