abstract:Operation Shady RAT is an ongoing series of cyber attacks starting in mid-2006 reported by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research at Internet security company McAfee in August 2011, who also led and named the Night Dragon and Operation Aurora cyberespionage intrusion investigations. The attacks have hit at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.
OperationShadyRAT, as it has come to be known, has seen government secrets, email archives, legal contracts and design schematics all lifted from the servers of the victims.