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FAKEM RATs Disguise Their Traffic As Yahoo! Messenger To Avoid Detection

Written by Ali Loney | January 18, 2013

Softpedia – (International) FAKEM RATs disguise their traffic as Yahoo! Messenger to avoid detection. A white paper published by Trend Micro detailed the way that a series of remote access trojans known as FAKEM disguises its traffic to appear as that of commonly used applications or HTML to avoid detection.

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