A never-before-seen remote access trojan (RAT) has been discovered in a set of campaigns targeting the energy sector, with a slew of post-exploitation tools to log keystrokes, record footage from webcams and steal browser credentials. Researchers called the malware “PoetRAT” due to various references to sonnets by English playwright William Shakespeare throughout the macros, which was embedded in malicious Word documents that were part of the campaign.

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