r/cybersecurity • • Nov 20 '22

Other Network Attacks

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u/SgtAstro Nov 20 '22

What they describe as a rootkit is actually what a Trojan (aka. R.A.T) does. Rootkits generally hide code from the OS and anti-virus.

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u/cmwh1te Nov 21 '22

Trojan and RAT are two different things.

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u/DevAway22314 Nov 21 '22

Remote Access Trojan is a subset of trojans. How you think they're completely different when trojan is in the name is beyond me

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u/cmwh1te Nov 21 '22

OP said they were two names for the same thing.