{"id":11005,"date":"2026-02-28T07:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:03:29","slug":"malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that&#8217;s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe.<br \/>\nThe Go module, github[.]com\/xinfeisoft\/crypto, impersonates the legitimate &#8220;golang.org\/x\/crypto&#8221; codebase, but injects malicious code that&#8217;s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered via terminal password<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that&#8217;s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe. The Go module, github[.]com\/xinfeisoft\/crypto, impersonates the legitimate &#8220;golang.org\/x\/crypto&#8221; codebase, but injects malicious code that&#8217;s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}