The moniker KHRAT came about because of the identification of a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) with command and control infrastructure found in Cambodia (KH). Ryan Olson, Director of Threat Intelligence at Palo Alto Networks, talks about the capabilities of KHRAT and shares details the feature set it provides to threat actors that use it.

Originally posted on CyberWire: https://www.thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cw-podcasts-rs-2017-10-28.html

KHRAT Malware With Unit 42 Threat Intelligence Researcher Ryan Olson

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