{"id":4739,"date":"2025-06-19T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-html\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:05:00","slug":"1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A new multi-stage malware campaign is targeting Minecraft users with a Java-based malware that employs a distribution-as-service (DaaS) offering called Stargazers Ghost Network.<br \/>\n&#8220;The campaigns resulted in a multi-stage attack chain targeting Minecraft users specifically,&#8221; Check Point researchers Jarom\u00edr Ho\u0159ej\u0161\u00ed and Antonis Terefos said in a report shared with The Hacker News.<br \/>\n&#8220;The malware was<\/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\/2025\/06\/1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub A new multi-stage malware campaign is targeting Minecraft users with a Java-based malware that employs a distribution-as-service (DaaS) offering called Stargazers Ghost Network. &#8220;The campaigns resulted in a multi-stage attack chain targeting Minecraft users specifically,&#8221; Check Point researchers Jarom\u00edr Ho\u0159ej\u0161\u00ed and Antonis [&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-4739","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\/4739"}],"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=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}