{"id":3559,"date":"2025-02-25T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/gitvenom-malware-steals-456k-in-bitcoin-using-fake-github-projects-to-hijack-wallets\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:12:25","slug":"gitvenom-malware-steals-456k-in-bitcoin-using-fake-github-projects-to-hijack-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/gitvenom-malware-steals-456k-in-bitcoin-using-fake-github-projects-to-hijack-wallets\/","title":{"rendered":"GitVenom Malware Steals $456K in Bitcoin Using Fake GitHub Projects to Hijack Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that&#8217;s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub.<br \/>\nThe campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky.<br \/>\n&#8220;The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts, a Telegram bot that enables\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that&#8217;s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub.<br \/>\nThe campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky.<br \/>\n&#8220;The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts, a Telegram bot that enables\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that&#8217;s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub. The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky. &#8220;The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts, a Telegram bot that enables\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/gitvenom-malware-steals-456k-in-bitcoin-using-fake-github-projects-to-hijack-wallets\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GitVenom Malware Steals $456K in Bitcoin Using Fake GitHub Projects to Hijack Wallets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}