{"id":9170,"date":"2025-12-13T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/fake-osint-and-gpt-utility-github-repos-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:03:28","slug":"fake-osint-and-gpt-utility-github-repos-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/fake-osint-and-gpt-utility-github-repos-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads<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 are calling attention to a new campaign that&#8217;s leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed PyStoreRAT.<br \/>\n&#8220;These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools, contain only a few lines of code responsible for silently downloading a remote HTA file and executing<\/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\/12\/fake-osint-and-gpt-utility-github-repos.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that&#8217;s leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed PyStoreRAT. &#8220;These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools, contain only a few lines of code responsible [&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-9170","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\/9170"}],"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=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}