TY - GEN
T1 - The Threat Triplet
T2 - International Conference on Health Informatics, Intelligent Systems, and Networking Technologies, HINT 2024
AU - Padhy, Swayam Tejas
AU - Makkithaya, Krishnamoorthi
AU - Shetty, Sucharitha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - In our globalized world, the danger of malware like Remote Access Trojans (RATs), Keyloggers, and Registry Keys is increasing. This paper aims to bring awareness on how these things can work together to do a lot of damage to individuals and organizations. With a proof-of-concept malware, we will illustrate how RATs compromise systems remotely. These RATs allow threat actors to get unauthorized access to critical systems. Keyloggers, on the other hand, work in the background, quietly recording important data like keyboard activity, passwords, credit card details, and confidential organizational information. Registry keys act as a supporting actor in this dangerous mix, giving the malware persistence. This paper also discusses strategies to detect and prevent the unholy trinity and emphasizes on a good cyber mentality to safeguard against these threats.
AB - In our globalized world, the danger of malware like Remote Access Trojans (RATs), Keyloggers, and Registry Keys is increasing. This paper aims to bring awareness on how these things can work together to do a lot of damage to individuals and organizations. With a proof-of-concept malware, we will illustrate how RATs compromise systems remotely. These RATs allow threat actors to get unauthorized access to critical systems. Keyloggers, on the other hand, work in the background, quietly recording important data like keyboard activity, passwords, credit card details, and confidential organizational information. Registry keys act as a supporting actor in this dangerous mix, giving the malware persistence. This paper also discusses strategies to detect and prevent the unholy trinity and emphasizes on a good cyber mentality to safeguard against these threats.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105018799184
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105018799184#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-4008-9_32
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-4008-9_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105018799184
SN - 9789819640072
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 427
EP - 439
BT - Advances in Health Informatics, Intelligent Systems, and Networking Technologies - Proceedings of HINT 2024
A2 - Jeyabose, Andrew
A2 - Jeyabose, Andrew
A2 - Balas, Valentina Emilia
A2 - Balas, Valentina Emilia
A2 - Fernandes, Steven L.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 13 March 2024 through 14 March 2024
ER -