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Backdoored Malware Reels in Newbie Cybercriminals

ID: 91619e4b-62da-5778-a427-8615ca69658b

STIX ID: report--91619e4b-62da-5778-a427-8615ca69658b

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
64/100

Date Published: 2025-06-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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**Executive Summary:** Sophos X-Ops discovered an operation in which an actor tracked as "ischhfd83" created and maintained over a hundred backdoored GitHub repositories (including a backdoored Sakura RAT) that targeted game cheaters and novice threat actors from 2022 through April; researchers linked the activity to multiple related campaigns, identified aliases and domains, and reported the repositories to GitHub for takedown.

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