The authorities have shut down the famous Luminosity RAT, which is known to penetrate devices and can not be accessed by users anymore.
In a joint operation, law enforcement authorities from Australia, Europe and North America closed the Luminosity Link RAT or Remote Access Trojan, also known as LuminosityLink.
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What is LuminosityLink RAT:
is a device penetration program that has the characteristics of known resin programs such as magnets and others. But there are many features in LuminosityLink that are not found in any other program, and the software is not free. Computers are hacked by configuring Trojans and integrating them with anything, for example, turing torrents or carrying out telegraph campaigns in various forums. Once the victim has loaded the trojan and opens it will penetrate the device, and can penetrate the full control of the victim's device.
More than 10 agencies including Europol, the South West Regional Organized Crime Unit of the United Kingdom and the National Crime Agency (NCA) participated in the closure currency. They succeeded in closing this hack tool.
Europol said in a press release that Luminosity had more than 8,600 users in more than 78 countries and believed to have thousands of victims. This program began targeting devices in 2015 and in 2016 in September, the program was found on a device in Britain in Bristol and was arrested.
NCA has also captured more than 100 computers during the process being analyzed. By internet crime investigators.
According to researchers in the information security of Kaspersky Luminosity has been used by Hackers of Nigeria in a phishing campaign that was their main targets industrial companies. And this is not strange because the Luminosity tool is sold for $ 42- € 33.
Luminosity may be one of the tens of thousands of spam programs that threaten anyone to hack their system, especially for those who do not use antivirus. If you do not want your computer to be hacked through these programs, you should avoid downloading programs from unreliable sources like YouTube And sites and forums.
author : @ilyess