Since COVID-19 cast its pall in March, the Agent Tesla remote-access trojan (RAT) has exploited the pandemic and added a raft of functionality that has helped it dominate the enterprise threat scene. Though Agent Tesla first made a splash six years ago, it hasn’t lost any momentum – in fact, it is featured in more attacks in the first half of 2020 compared to the infamous TrickBot or Emotet malware, according to SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs. In April for instance, it was seen in targeted campaigns against the oil-and-gas industry.

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