Operation Shady RAT is an ongoing series of cyber attacks starting in mid-2006 [1] reported by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research at Internet security company McAfee in August 2011, who also led and named the Night Dragon Operation and Operation Aurora cyberespionage intrusion investigations. [2]

Shady RAT is one of the biggest cyberattacks in history, with over 70 targets. Despite many victims and the severity of the attack, researchers are still trying to confirm who some of the...

Aug 2, 2011 · For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits, and...

Jul 13, 2016 · Whenever someone talks about Cyber Warfare, the first name that comes to mind is Operation Shady RAT. It is an on-going series of cyber security attacks which started in 2006 but were reported only in 2011 by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research at Internet Security company McAfee.

With the goal of raising the level of public awareness today, we are publishing the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year targeted operation by one specific actor — “Operation Shady RAT,” as I have named it at McAfee (RAT is a common acronym in the industry that stands for remote access tool).

Aug 3, 2011 · The campaign, named "Operation Shady RAT" — RAT as in "remote access tool" — was discovered by Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at security firm McAfee....

Aug 3, 2011 · McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long targeted operation by a specific actor dubbed Operation Shady RAT.

Aug 9, 2011 · For at least five years, hackers had secret access to computer systems of the United Nations, ASEAN, national governments, multinational corporations, defense contractors, media, Olympic committees and other groups, as discovered by the cyber-security firm McAfee.

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Aug 3, 2011 · With a PC now compromised, the hackers can install RAT software on the victim PCs, to allow long-term monitoring, collection of credentials, network probing, and data exfiltration.