<aside> <img src="/icons/chess-knight_gray.svg" alt="/icons/chess-knight_gray.svg" width="40px" /> A Trojan is a piece of malicious software that is disguised as a piece of harmless or desirable software

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Remote Access Trojan (RAT)

• A RAT (Remote Access Trojan) is malware an attacker uses to gain full administrative privileges and remote control of a target computer.
• Widely used by modern attackers because it provides the attacker with remote control of the victim’s machine

Trojans are commonly used by attackers to exploit a vulnerability in your workstation and then conducting data exfiltration to steal your sensitive documents, creating backdoors to maintain persistence on your systems, and other malicious activities