what is RAT?

what is RAT?
computers they have been installed on. The applications are often used by hackers as the payload of a Trojan horse, giving the user access to the victim’s machine without their knowledge or consent.

History

Back Orifice

The RAT program “Back Orifice” was created by the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) and allows users to control Internet-connected machines running Microsoft Windows from a remote location. The application name was intended to be a parody of Microsoft BackOffice server products. The tool was released by the CDC on August 1st, 1998, at the DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the group, the program was created to illustrate the lack of security in Microsoft’s Windows 98 operating system. Back Orifice was often delivered to machines as a Trojan horse program, a type of malware unintentionally installed by users. On July 10th, 1999, an updated version of the tool named “Back Orifice 2000” (BO2k) was released by the CDC at DEF CON 7. The new version had several additional features, including a plugin architecture and the ability to be installed on several different versions of Windows.