🚨 What happens behind the scenes of KGB RAT? #KGBRAT is marketed as a legitimate Windows administration tool, but our latest research reveals a Malware-as-a-Service platform built for surveillance, credential theft, #ransomware deployment, and victim intimidation. Key findings from the investigation: 🔹 Infrastructure linked to KGB RAT dates back to January 2022, years before its public promotion on underground forums. 🔹The malware combines keylogging, credential theft, HVNC, ransomware, and an advertised #CryptoClipper capability within a single builder. 🔹 Operators abuse legitimate services such as #Telegram Bot API for victim notifications and ip-api.com for geolocation profiling. 🔹 KGB RAT includes unusual harassment features, including screamers, jump scares, and forced BSOD events, blending #financialcrime with psychological disruption. 🔹 Analysis revealed extensive anti-analysis and defense-evasion functionality, including Windows Defender exclusion tampering, suspicious PowerShell execution, AV enumeration, and protections targeting .NET reverse engineering tools. 🔹 Despite being marketed as a new offering, KGB RAT shares significant overlap with the NjRAT/Lime-Worm ecosystem, demonstrating how established malware frameworks continue to be repackaged and commercialized. Read the full analysis: link.group-ib.com/4hYPuWG

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