{"id":7144,"date":"2026-02-27T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-passwords-deploys-rekoobe-backdoor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:11:33","slug":"malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-passwords-deploys-rekoobe-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-passwords-deploys-rekoobe-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that&#8217;s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe.<br \/>\nThe Go module, github[.]com\/xinfeisoft\/crypto, impersonates the legitimate &#8220;golang.org\/x\/crypto&#8221; codebase, but injects malicious code that&#8217;s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered via terminal password\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that&#8217;s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe.<br \/>\nThe Go module, github[.]com\/xinfeisoft\/crypto, impersonates the legitimate &#8220;golang.org\/x\/crypto&#8221; codebase, but injects malicious code that&#8217;s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered via terminal password\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that&#8217;s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe. The Go module, github[.]com\/xinfeisoft\/crypto, impersonates the legitimate &#8220;golang.org\/x\/crypto&#8221; codebase, but injects malicious code that&#8217;s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered via terminal password\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals-passwords-deploys-rekoobe-backdoor\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7145,"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\/7144"}],"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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}