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Graham Cluley |
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853272 |
Date de publication |
2018-10-18 11:59:04 (vue: 2018-10-18 14:02:19) |
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RAT author jailed for 30 months, ordered to hand over $725k worth of Bitcoin |
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A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly spy on victims.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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