
Steaelite RAT combines data theft and ransomware management capability in one tool
It’s bad enough that threat actors are leveraging AI for their attacks, but now they can also access a new remote access trojan (RAT) that makes it easy to launch data theft and ransomware attacks on Windows computers from a single management pane. The tool is called Steaelite, and according to researchers at BlackFog, it’s been advertised and available to customers on underground cybercrime sites since last November. In addition, there’s a promotional video on YouTube showing off its capabilities. The tool could lower the barrier to the execution of sophisticated, end-to-end ransomware campaigns. But BlackFog CEO Darren Williams told CSO that this isn’t the most sophisticated RAT he’s seen....