MALWARE FAMILY

HiatusRAT

Internal ID: elf.hiatus_rat

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Lumen discovered this malware used in campaign targeting business-grade routers using a RAT they call HiatusRAT and a variant of tcpdump for traffic interception.

Threat Analysis

HiatusRAT is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.

External References

→https://blog.lumen.com/hiatusrat-takes-little-time-off-in-a-return-to-action/

→https://blog.lumen.com/new-hiatusrat-router-malware-covertly-spies-on-victims/

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

elf.hiatus_rat

Research Links

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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.

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