{
  "id": 12927268,
  "title": "ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/threatsday-ransomware-affiliate-betrayal-whatsapp-rat-exposed-hacker",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-08T17:58:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/threatsday-ransomware-affiliate.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left a server exposed, complete with tools and traces of an intrusion. Apparently, keeping things secure is a problem on both sides of the fence. The rest of the week isn't much more reassuring. Malicious code turned up in developer packages and extensions that",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}