Ebba received a message from one of her tech support employees. In violation of company policy, a user had downloaded a free program to receive weather reports, but the program had also installed malware on the computer that gave the threat actor unrestricted access to the computer. What type of malware had been downloaded?

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Kian Martin

Biology

3 September, 19:45

Ebba received a message from one of her tech support employees. In violation of company policy, a user had downloaded a free program to receive weather reports, but the program had also installed malware on the computer that gave the threat actor unrestricted access to the computer. What type of malware had been downloaded?

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Cason Solomon · Answer 1

RAT malware

Explanation:

Malware is a collection of malicious software designed to intentionally harm a computer. There are different types of malware which include computer Viruses, worms and Trojan horses.

A Remote Access Trojan is an example of a malicious software that allows unrestricted and unauthorized access to a victims computer due to creation of a backdoor for administrative control.

Therefore, the free weather program had also installed a RAT to the users computer that allowed the threat actor to have unrestricted access to the computer