True, but what better way to ensure your own job security than to start a public HOT discussion about the newly "discovered" threat? Especially, if you can offer protection against it - not that McAfee would actually profit from something like that. riiiight
In a recent BOL Molly suggests Shady RAT will lead to the loss of freedom as we know it. I don't believe there is anything associated with Shady RAT that hasn't been happening daily for at least 10 or 15 years from at least a dozen different countries. The only thing new here is that McAfee has finally caught up and decided to make it public and create their own buzz for their own purposes. According to a recent Top Tech News report "Symantec published a response to McAfee in a blog post called The Truth
Behind the Shady RAT. Symantec's conclusion: While this attack is indeed
significant, it's one of many similar attacks taking place daily." So I think that Molly can rest assured that if anybody was waiting for a reason to take more freedoms away they could have done so long ago.

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