{"id":8034,"date":"2026-05-08T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/new-linux-pamdoora-backdoor-uses-pam-modules-to-steal-ssh-credentials\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:12:20","slug":"new-linux-pamdoora-backdoor-uses-pam-modules-to-steal-ssh-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/new-linux-pamdoora-backdoor-uses-pam-modules-to-steal-ssh-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"New Linux PamDOORa Backdoor Uses PAM Modules to Steal SSH Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that&#8217;s being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called &#8220;darkworm.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that enables persistent SSH access by means of a magic password and specific TCP port combination.\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that&#8217;s being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called &#8220;darkworm.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that enables persistent SSH access by means of a magic password and specific TCP port combination.\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that&#8217;s being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called &#8220;darkworm.&#8221; The backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that enables persistent SSH access by means of a magic password and specific TCP&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/new-linux-pamdoora-backdoor-uses-pam-modules-to-steal-ssh-credentials\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Linux PamDOORa Backdoor Uses PAM Modules to Steal SSH Credentials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8035,"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\/8034"}],"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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}