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Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia
The Hacker News ·
The Brief
- The South Asia-focused cyberespionage group Bitter (also tracked as APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, Orange Yali, T-APT-17 and TA397) is targeting South Asian organizations.
- The campaign uses a previously unreported remote access trojan called PapRAT.
- PapRAT is reported to be written in both C++ and Rust.
Why it matters
Organizations in South Asia, and their developers and IT staff, face a newly documented remote access trojan used for espionage, so detection and hardening matter.
Who’s affected
- South Asian organizations
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The South Asian cyber espionage group known as Bitter (aka APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, Orange Yali, T-APT-17, and TA397) has been observed targeting South Asian organizations with a previously unreported remote access trojan called PapRAT. "PapRAT has both C++ and Rust…
Timeline
The Hacker News reports Bitter's new PapRAT backdoor campaign targeting South Asia
The Hacker News
Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia