Coinciding with the seizure of the sales website www.worldwiredlabs[.]com, a Croatian national who is suspected to be the website's administrator has been arrested. While the suspect's name was not released, investigative journalist Brian Krebs
identified Mario Zanko as the owner of the domain. "NetWire is a licensed commodity RAT offered in underground forums to non-technical users to carry out their own criminal activities," Europol's European Cybercrime Center (EC3)
said in a tweet. Advertised
since at least 2012, the malware is typically distributed via
malspam campaigns and gives a remote attacker complete control over a Windows, macOS, or Linux system. It also comes with password-stealing and keylogging capabilities. The U.S. Department of Justice
said an investigation into the malware operation was launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2020, with the agency creating an account on the site and paying for a subscription to create a custom NetWire RAT instance.
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