{"id":5506,"date":"2025-09-15T07:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/hiddengh0st-winos-and-kkrat-exploit-seo-github-pages-in-chinese-malware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:18:49","slug":"hiddengh0st-winos-and-kkrat-exploit-seo-github-pages-in-chinese-malware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/hiddengh0st-winos-and-kkrat-exploit-seo-github-pages-in-chinese-malware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT Exploit SEO, GitHub Pages in Chinese Malware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bChinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers manipulated search rankings with SEO plugins and registered lookalike domains that closely mimicked legitimate software sites,&#8221; Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Pei Han Liao said. &#8220;By using convincing language and small character\u00a0Chinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers manipulated search rankings with SEO plugins and registered lookalike domains that closely mimicked legitimate software sites,&#8221; Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Pei Han Liao said. &#8220;By using convincing language and small character\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bChinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware. &#8220;The attackers manipulated search rankings with SEO plugins and registered lookalike domains that closely mimicked legitimate software sites,&#8221; Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Pei Han Liao said. &#8220;By using convincing language and small character\u00a0Chinese-speaking users&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/hiddengh0st-winos-and-kkrat-exploit-seo-github-pages-in-chinese-malware-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT Exploit SEO, GitHub Pages in Chinese Malware Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5507,"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\/5506"}],"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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}