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Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia

The Hacker News · WORLD · Security · 11/9/2026, 9:31:29 AM

The South Asian cyber espionage group known as Bitter (aka APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, Orange Yali, T-APT-17, and TA397) has been observed targeting South Asian organizations with a previously unreported remote access trojan called PapRAT. "PapRAT has both C++ and Rust implementations," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. "Its capabilities include command execution, file

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