{"id":2394,"date":"2011-02-28T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2016-02-12T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:00:41","slug":"black-hole-rat-is-really-no-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/black-hole-rat-is-really-no-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackHole RAT is Really No Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iThreats published <a href=\"http:\/\/ithreats.net\/2011\/02\/25\/rat-blackhole\/\">information about a new remote administration tool<\/a> recently, and other sites are presenting this as a serious new threat to the Mac. Actually, this is hardly a threat at all. This tool, BlackHole, is something that needs to be installed on a Mac, generally via a Trojan horse, and, while it offers simple functionalities to control a Mac, merely having shell (Terminal) access is more than enough. A RAT, or remote administration tool (and not a &#8220;remote access Trojan,&#8221; as one site claims), such as this is designed to simplify the tasks of a malicious user who wants to control an infected computer, but in most cases, the people who are infecting Macs will be able to do all of this with a simple ssh connection using Terminal.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blackhole-client1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blackhole-client1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blackhole-client\" width=\"402\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blackhole-client1.png 402w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blackhole-client1-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blackhole-client1-100x85.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Backdoors are relatively easy to install once you get a user to install a Trojan horse. A remote administration tool is not in itself a threat; it requires that a backdoor be installed, and this in turn requires effective payload from a Trojan horse or other means of installation. While Intego will be detecting and blocking BlackHole in its threat filters, we consider this to not be a serious risk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iThreats published information about a new remote administration tool recently, and other sites are presenting this as a serious new threat to the Mac. Actually, this is hardly a threat at all. 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