A variant of Remote Control System (RCS) spyware collected a month ago goes completely under the radar of some antivirus products, a security researcher reports.
RCS is a versatile product developed by Italian company Hacking Team that can work on different computer platforms, desktop or mobile, and it is developed specifically for government agencies for surveillance purposes.
Running malicious process not identified
The sample detection experiment was carried out by Claudio Guarnieri, the leading developer of Detekt, a free scanner specifically created to help journalists, activists and human rights defenders find on their computer systems traces of spyware known to be used by various government organizations.On Wednesday, he tested antivirus solutions from Kaspersky, Avira (Free), G Data and ESET and found that none of them were able to detect a trace of compromise on a system with an active RCS process.
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