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First Remote-Access Trojan That Can Target Android, Linux, Mac and Windows

Posted by timothy on from the so-versatile dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Hackers have put on sale OmniRAT, a remote access trojan that can target Androids, Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs. The tool costs $25-$50, which is only a fraction of $200-$300,the price of DroidJack, another Android RAT. Avast is currently reporting that the RAT was used this summer in Germany, spread to victims via SMS messages. The Softpedia article about OmniRAT includes a video, but declined to post the tool's homepage. You can easily find it via a Google search.

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  1. Misleading title - *controller* runs on PCs? by Guy+Harris · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps "OmniRAT Lets Hackers Control Android Phones, Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs" really means "OmniRAT Lets Hackers Control Android Phones *from* Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs". A screen grab in the Avast blog post speaks of a "Multi-OS Server - Android Client", which may mean that the server that controls the remote phone can run on Windows, OS X, and Linux.