Here are the five tools hackers use to attack

Strikers ranging from spy groups backed by states in cybercrime operations are increasingly returning to open hackeric devices to help carry out campaigns, Australia's cyber security authorities, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and the United States warn.

The British National Cyber Security Agency notes that the tool list is too large, but is designed to help protect the network against some of the most common tools used online.

Remote access Trojan

The remote access Trojan, according to the report, is a malware secretly installed in an infected system providing a back door to monitor all activity and enabling the attacker to carry out the commands leading to the theft of data.

The particular example given in the report is JBiFrost, a Trojan usually used by cybercriminals but with the ability to be exploited by state actors. What makes JBFrost so powerful is that it's cross-platform, with the ability to operate in Windows, Linux, MAC OS X and Android.

Web Shields

“Web sources” are objective crimes that attackers charge to target after an initial compromise in order to acquire distant administrative capacity, ensuring those behind the attack with the potential to really get their hook on the target system, but also in other networks.

A free copy of this online virus is China Chopper, which is widely used by attackers to provide remote access to compromised internet servers. Once installed in a system, the China Chopper server can be reached by the attackers at any time it can copy, renamed, erase, even change the time stamp of files.

Mimikatz

PowerShall Empire

Designed as a means of legal testing penetration in 2015, he has long enabled attackers to realize that they can use the Empire PowerShell to help carry out harmful activity. The tool allows the attacker to take advantage of privileges, credentials, access information, and move on the network.

C2 Hide Tools

If they have no interest in detection, attackers will often look to hide their tracks when compromising a target, using specific means to obscure their location and activity.

One used in many attacks in Htran, a hacker vehicle that has been available online since 2009 and often refuels in countries like GitHub. Using this tool, attackers can avoid intervention and detection systems, and conceal communications with their command and control infrastructure.

Recommendations by cyber security agencies include using multi-proportional authentication, sharing of networks, establishing a security monitoring capability and updating systems and software.