The sophisticated piece of malware, “njRAT” has come to picture targeting the government agencies and organizations in the Middle East, according to the research carried out by Symantec security researchers. The researchers analyzed 721 samples of malicious code ” and revealed that a large number of about 24,000 infected computers worldwide were targeted by the malware. Nearly 80 percent of the command and control servers worldwide were located in Middle East region and North Africa, such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine and Libya.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/03/popular-remote-access-trojan-njrat.html