X RAT

Xrat is one of many variations of malware that particularly targets financial and retail entities. The payload of Xrat may be one that includes code to collect data on an compromised and infected system where the data may be accessed by remote hackers.

Among the variations of Xrat it is believed that they all originate form Russian hackers where they may be spread by exploit kits or botnets, which are a group of compromised systems that perform malicious activity over the Internet.

Eliminating the Xrat threat from a system is a process that can be accomplished using an updated antimalware resource.