Hacker targets other hackers and gamers with backdoored GitHub code

A hacker targets other hackers, gamers, and researchers with exploits, bots, and game cheats in source code hosted on GitHub that contain hidden backdoors to give the threat actor remote access to infected devices.

This campaign was discovered by Sophos researchers, whom a client contacted to estimate the danger of a remote access trojan called Sakura RAT, which is freely available on GitHub.

The researchers found that the Sakura RAT code was essentially nonfunctional but had a PreBuildEvent in the Visual Studio project that downloads and installs malware on the devices of those who attempt to compile it. s.

The publisher, "ischhfd83," was discovered to be directly or indirectly linked to another 141 GitHub repositories, 133 of which dropped hidden backdoors, marking this as a concert