{"id":4663,"date":"2025-06-18T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-malware-masquerading-as-game-mods-on-github\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:25:06","slug":"1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-malware-masquerading-as-game-mods-on-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-malware-masquerading-as-game-mods-on-github\/","title":{"rendered":"1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA 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\u00a0A 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA 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 Terefos said in a report shared with The Hacker News. &#8220;The malware was\u00a0A&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/1500-minecraft-players-infected-by-java-malware-masquerading-as-game-mods-on-github\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4664,"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\/4663"}],"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=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}