ZeroDayRAT: Because the Universe Hates Me And My Fucking Phone

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought the mobile malware shitstorm couldn’t get more diarrhetic, some basement-dwelling wankers have unleashed ZeroDayRAT upon us. Because apparently, the last 47 variants of spyware weren’t quite fucktastic enough to make my life a living hell.

This charming little digital tapeworm burrows into your phone through some zero-day exploit—which is tech-speak for “some fuckwit developer left a gloryhole in the OS”—then proceeds to turn your precious smartphone into the surveillance device those tinfoil-hat nutters warned you about. Except it’s not the government you should worry about, it’s that dodgy “Flashlight++” app your idiot user installed because it had flashing colors.

Once inside, this rat-bastard can:

• Record audio and video in real-time (hope you weren’t picking your nose during that “private” Zoom call)
• Hoover up every message, photo, and password (yeah, keep sending those dick pics, Chad)
• Log your keystrokes (I look forward to reading your shitty personal novel about being a misunderstood genius)
• Track your location (so the blackmailers know exactly which seedy motel you’re banging your secretary in)

The security researchers—bless their naive little hearts—are treating this like the second coming of Digital Christ. They babble about “sophisticated attack vectors” and “advanced persistence mechanisms.” Translation: some absolute cockwomble clicked “OK” on a permission dialog that might as well have said “Please violently ravage my phone and steal my identity.“

And the mitigation advice? Oh, that’s the best fucking part. “Don’t install untrusted apps,” they say. “Keep your OS updated,” they bleat. As if my users could find their own arseholes with both hands and a GPS. These are the same shitgibbons who think “password123” is uncrackable and believe the Nigerian Prince genuinely needs their help moving $50 million.

The real kicker? This malware was probably developed by some “legitimate surveillance company” selling to governments, then “accidentally” leaked to every script kiddy from here to Mordor. But sure, let’s all pretend this is a surprise and not just another Tuesday in the security circus where I’m the poor bastard cleaning up the elephant shit.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/new-zerodayrat-mobile-spyware-enables.html

Anecdote: So last week, one of my lusers rings me up, whinging that their company phone’s “acting funny.” I remote in and find ZeroDayRAT cheerfully broadcasting their entire fucking life to a C&C server in Russia. When I ask what monumental act of stupidity preceded this, they proudly announce they installed a “critical security patch” from a popup that literally had notavirus.exe.mobi in the URL. When I suggested they might as well have just posted their bank details on 4chan, they got offended and said “But it had a padlock icon!” I’ve since disabled their app store privileges, restricted them to a Nokia 3310, and updated their AD profile to “Walking HIPAA Violation.” They’ll probably still find a way to fuck that up too.

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