{"id":7140,"date":"2026-02-27T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/trojanized-gaming-tools-spread-java-based-rat-via-browser-and-chat-platforms\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:12:20","slug":"trojanized-gaming-tools-spread-java-based-rat-via-browser-and-chat-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/trojanized-gaming-tools-spread-java-based-rat-via-browser-and-chat-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojanized Gaming Tools Spread Java-Based RAT via Browser and Chat Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan (RAT).<br \/>\n&#8220;A malicious downloader staged a portable Java runtime and executed a malicious Java archive (JAR) file named jd-gui.jar,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X. &#8220;This downloader used PowerShell\u00a0Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan (RAT).<br \/>\n&#8220;A malicious downloader staged a portable Java runtime and executed a malicious Java archive (JAR) file named jd-gui.jar,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X. &#8220;This downloader used PowerShell\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan (RAT). &#8220;A malicious downloader staged a portable Java runtime and executed a malicious Java archive (JAR) file named jd-gui.jar,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/trojanized-gaming-tools-spread-java-based-rat-via-browser-and-chat-platforms\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trojanized Gaming Tools Spread Java-Based RAT via Browser and Chat Platforms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7141,"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\/7140"}],"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=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}