Trojan Horse

This report provides an educational overview of Trojan Horse malware: how Trojans disguise themselves, require user interaction to execute, typical payloads and persistence mechanisms, ten common Trojan types (including spyware, backdoors, banking Trojans, downloaders, rootkits, and information stealers), risks to mobile devices and enterprise networks, and recommended defenses such as user education, patching, least privilege, endpoint detection, and network/email filtering.