New ComRAT Malware Uses Gmail to Receive Commands and Exfiltrate Data

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new advanced version of ComRAT backdoor, one of the earliest known backdoors used by the Turla APT group, that leverages Gmail’s web interface to covertly receive commands and exfiltrate sensitive data.

“ComRAT v4 was first seen in 2017 and known still to be in use as recently as January 2020,” cybersecurity firm ESET said in a report shared with