{"id":8130,"date":"2023-04-09T02:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:42:31","slug":"what-is-the-raccoon-stealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-raccoon-stealer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Raccoon Stealer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Raccoon Stealer:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a kind of <strong>malware that steals various data from an infected computer.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a c<strong>lassic example of information-stealing malware, which cybercriminals typically use to gain possession of sensitive data <\/strong>saved in users\u2019 browsers and cryptocurrency wallets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the case of browsers, targeted data typically includes cookies<\/strong>, saved login details, and saved credit card details.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the case of cryptocurrency wallets<\/strong> (henceforth, \u2018crypto-wallets\u2019), <strong>targeted data typically includes public keys, private keys, <\/strong>and seed phrases<\/li>\n<li>Once sensitive browser and crypto-wallet data is in the hands of cybercriminals, it will likely be used to conduct harmful activities, such as identity theft, cryptocurrency theft, and credit card fraud.<\/li>\n<li>Like most info-stealers, <strong>Raccoon Stealer is purchasable.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The operators of Raccoon Stealer sell Raccoon Stealer samples to their customers <\/strong>(called \u2018affiliates\u2019), <strong>who then use the info-stealer to gain possession of sensitive data<\/strong> saved on users\u2019 devices. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Malware?<\/h3>\n<p>Malware, or malicious software, is any program or file that is intentionally harmful to a computer, network or server. Types of malware include computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware and spyware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/eight-govt-entities-hit-by-info-stealing-malware-8541103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Eight govt entities hit by info-stealing malware<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raccoon Stealer is a kind of malware that steals various data from an infected computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}