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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 remote access Trojans known as FAKEM disguise its traffic to appear as commonly used applications or HTML to avoid detection.