{"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":"

iThreats published 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 “remote access Trojan,” 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


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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":"

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. This tool, BlackHole, is something that needs to be installed on a Mac, generally via a Trojan horse, and, while it offers simple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[30,2719,86,119],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-malware","tag-backdoor","tag-blackhole-rat","tag-mac-malware","tag-security-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t