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Cardinal RAT Resurrected to Target FinTech Firms

March 20, 2019

A malware family called Cardinal RAT has reappeared, after two years of silence, in a series of attacks that have been targeting Israel-based financial technology firms.

After Cardinal RAT was first detected in 2017, the malware disappeared for two years. But now, in this latest campaign, researchers with Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said that the malware is back, and has adapted new tricky modifications aimed at evading detection and hindering analysis.

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