{
  "id": 19171785,
  "title": "Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/bitter-hackers-deploy-new-paprat-backdoor-in-cyberespionage-campaign",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-09T14:31:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/bitter-hackers-deploy-new-paprat.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "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."
}