March 2022’s most wanted malware: Revenge RAT asserts its dominance in the UAE followed by Emotet

March 2022’s most wanted malware: Revenge RAT asserts its dominance in the UAE followed by Emotet

DUBAI, UAE: Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has published its latest Threat Index for March 2022. Researchers reported that Revenge RAT, a Trojan that targets the Windows platform, is the most prevalent malware targeting 6 percent of UAE businesses, while Emotet reenlists to second place by impacting 5 percent of the organizations in the UAE.

Remote access trojans (RATs) are malware designed to allow an attacker to remotely control an infected computer. Once the trojan is running on a compromised system, the attacker can send commands to it and receive data back in response. Revenge RAT was the most prevalent malware in the UAE this month. It accepts commands from a remote server to collect system information, run/update files from links or disks, load plugins and close/restart the malware among other malicious activities. Additionally, it creates a Run key Registry entry on the infected system and a shortcut under the user's Startup folder to achieve persistence.

Emotet, the self-propagating and modular trojan, is second in the top malware index for the UAE. Emotet distributes other malware or malicious campaigns and uses multiple methods