In summary, having trojan-type infections installed and running can lead to serious privacy issues, significant financial/data loss, hardware damage, and various other issues. Finally, trojans might be used as remote access tools (RATs), which allow cyber criminals to remotely control hijacked machines. These infections are not particularly harmful, however, they can be very annoying, since they cause unwanted redirects and deliver advertisements. On rare occasions, trojans also proliferate browser hijackers and adware. Thus, computer components start to generate excessive heat and could be permanently damaged. This process requires many system resources. Cryptominers misuse infected machines to mine cryptocurrencies.
Therefore, the presence of these infections usually leads to permanent data loss. Restoring files without ransomware developers' involvement is mostly impossible. Ransomware infections are designed to encrypt data and make ransom demands. They infiltrate computers and inject them with additional malware (e.g., ransomware, cryptominers, etc.). Trojan-type viruses cause so-called "chain infections". Infiltration of malware is also an issue. Therefore, as well as losing savings, victims might also accrue significant debt. In addition, they might attempt to borrow money from the victim's contacts in social networks, email accounts, etc. Therefore, data tracking can lead to serious privacy issues and significant financial loss, since criminals misuse hijacked accounts via online purchases, direct money transfers, and so on. Developers (cyber criminals) aim to generate as much revenue as possible. They might collect personal details (such as logins/passwords, banking information, and similar).
Cyber criminals typically proliferate this malware using spam email campaigns and fake software 'cracks'. Wacatac (also known as Trojan:Win32/Wacatac) is a trojan-type infection that stealthily infiltrates computers and performs a number of malicious actions.
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