Open-Source Xeno RAT Trojan Emerges as a Potent Threat on GitHub

The Hacker News reports that Xeno RAT, an open-source C# remote-access trojan with features like SOCKS5 proxying, hVNC, audio recording, and a builder, has been published on GitHub and observed being distributed via Discord CDN using a shortcut-based downloader and DLL side-loading; the article also notes a separate Gh0st-derived Linux backdoor (Nood RAT).